“If you expect that, you should stop moving the goalposts and stay on topic instead of attempting gotcha games. Try it sometimes.”
I’ve never moved the goalposts. I have always said “Roman Catholic” is an English Protestant invention as the OED makes clear. That’s not a ‘gotcha game’. That’s just the truth.
Your version of the "truth", maybe. I know you can't seem to let even the smallest iota of detail go in your quest to always be right about everything, but this current line of banter started when you responded to my:
“The discussion wasn’t about “Romish” or “Popish” now, was it?”
With:
They are related terms to what we are discussing. All three were invented by Protestants.
The "goalpost" (for THIS argument anyway) was always about the genesis of the ENGLISH term "Roman Catholic" and your insistence that it was invented by Protestants to insult Catholics and your refusal to use it because of that. The words "Romish" or "Popish" weren't brought up except by you.
Do I think Romish, Popish, Papist or Poped might be offensive terms to some Catholics? Yes, I can see how some may not like those terms. But when I can show you the term Roman Catholic used in documents that ORIGINATED with your church, Popes who have used the term, signs outside churches and general use BY Roman Catholics without any force from anyone, to continue to insist everyone is picking on Catholics is just so much noise. Such a pathetic perpetually persecuted attitude is what comes across and is out of place on an open Religion Forum thread. It is disruptive and silly to continue to press such a weak excuse for an argument.
What's the real deal here? Do you think wearing people out so that they give up trying to ever discuss anything with you is the same thing as winning an argument and making you right by default? Seriously, dude, don't you have better things to do with your time? I know I do.