Well if one parses words, then sure it can all sound personal. The complete sentence was “if you do XYZ, then you have no credibility”. In addition, I said one “appears to be” which is not the same thing as saying one “is”.
Of course when others tend to make things personal it does make it even harder for the receiving poster to remain objective in his/her posts. Perhaps if others would refrain from judging fellow Catholics as non-Catholic or not remaining on the Ark given the unprecedented Crisis in the Church these days, it would help the overall productivity and tenor of the discussion.
If we want to talk about parsing words...saying that "Blather doing what he does means he has no credibility" is not really a tremendous improvement on simply saying "Blather has no crediblity." xD
Of course when others tend to make things personal it does make it even harder for the receiving poster to remain objective in his/her posts. Perhaps if others would refrain from judging fellow Catholics as non-Catholic or not remaining on the Ark given the unprecedented Crisis in the Church these days, it would help the overall productivity and tenor of the discussion.
Well, from the perspective of both me and Blathernaut, sedevacantists are NOT in the Church, as they reject the legitimacy of validly elected Popes. It would be rather disingenuous for us to pretend that we thought the circumstances were otherwise.