You quote an ex-CIA propaganda analyst Catholic, who wrote for a Catholic magazine and founded a Catholic university, citing his assessment of the threat to the Church's power, as your evidence that the Cathars and Albigensians were violent? And you ask me if I want to retract or rephrase?
No, I do not wish to retract. Yes, I wish to rephrase. What I should have said is that there is no way for me to adequately the intensity and depth of your hypocrisy in replying to your posts. That it is not enugh to point out that they are lies and misrepresentation, that they are deliberate slanders and vile calumny, because that does not address the professionalism of your paid responses. The many levels of psycholinguistic manipulations in your phrasings, the calculated selections of biasedly assessed historical issues, the generalized applications of otherwise seldom justified sweeping condemnations, and, above all, the utter diregard with which you hold not only the intelligence of your audience, but the good name of Catholicism itself, which you asociate and pretend to defend with your bottom-feeding tactics - as if it needed such corruption to speak for it.
There, that's what I really mean. Thank you for giving me the chance to express myself more precisely. I appreciate it.
I think everyone recognizes an ad hominem attack when they see it.
One thing that stood out was “the professionalism of your paid responses”... what was that all about?