I can see how that tactic might help those who believe they are always right and everyone else is always wrong. Reach a post that clearly disproves an assertion and stop reading any further so one can claim he is still right. There's a word for that..."denial" comes to mind.
I read the things you post and then I do a little research to see if the conclusion the author came to is correct. Had you done the same, instead of taking at face value whatever pleased your ears, you would not be the one contending for a falsehood ...repeatedly. Luther used this "discussion" with the devil as a literary device to communicate his thoughts. He never said it was a genuine conversation and to assert he did is simply ignorant..especially since he stated it didn't actually take place. Have you read The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis? Did you think Lewis actually overheard these demons plotting and planning and then wrote his book? Maybe instead of scarfing up and pasting all the vitriol you can find to disparage the non-Catholic Christians here, you could approach topics with a more objective eye. It could probably help salvage what little credibility you have remaining after this thread.
“Have you read The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis?”
Many, many times.
“Did you think Lewis actually overheard these demons plotting and planning and then wrote his book?”
Nope and he points out that he is using a literary device. Luther did not. And I have no reason to assume he was. You might assume it. I do not.
“Maybe instead of scarfing up and pasting all the vitriol you can find to disparage the non-Catholic Christians here, you could approach topics with a more objective eye.”
First of all, posting what Luther himself wrote cannot possibly be written off as “scarfing up and pasting all the vitriol you can find to disparage the non-Catholic Christians.” Did Luther write about his conversation with the devil to “disparage the non-Catholic Christians”? No, he did not. You say he wrote it as a literary device, but he certainly did not write it as a literary device to “disparage the non-Catholic Christians.”
“It could probably help salvage what little credibility you have remaining after this thread.”
You are not an adequate judge of the state of my credibility before or after this thread no matter how much you might wish to be. If you saw the private emails I get, you might be very surprised indeed.
There's none left, bb.