I see no use and great temptation in conversing with those who think they are fighting a fight and that that justifies resorting to insult when reason fails.
If they turn again and show themselves to be concerned about more about the victory of the truth than of themselves — if they show that they can tell the two apart, then conversation can be useful to both.
C'mon Mad Dawg...When the English speaking world has a definition for 'is' and then you tell us the Catholic religion has a different definition for the English word 'is', something's rotten in Denmark, or Bismark, or Haiti...
You converse in our language and then when we finally pin you down you claim what you are saying has a different meaning in the Catholic language...
That's not a failure of my reasoning...
There are two corruptions of discourse here.
The most grievous is the resort to insult, slur, and ignorant and unjustified accusation.
The second is lousy reasoning in service not of the truth but of conquest. Purgatory and purgation are our words. We have an elaborate theological discourse, whose native language is not English.
Our enemies, for such they are — as their easy transition to insult shows, take our words and bandy them about, not troubling to find out what we mean by them. They grow accustomed to their misuse of the terms of our theology and when we maintain their original use they accuse US of changing the meaning of words.
This is obviously bogus.