[boatbums]

Vlad you need a refresher on FR posting guidelines:

Forms of "making it personal" include mind reading, attributing motive, accusing another Freeper of telling a lie (because it attributes motive, the intent to deceive) - making the thread "about" individual Freeper(s), following a Freeper from thread to thread and badgering a Freeper over-and-again with the same question.

The words "prevarication" "dishonesty" "slander" "deceit" "calumny" and "subterfuge" are synonymous with "lie" because they entail intent.

Words such as "false" "error" "wrong" "inaccurate" "misstatement" do not attribute motive and are not "making it personal."

Other words push the envelope of motive but are not synonymous with "lie" for purposes of modding the RF. However, they can be "making it personal" if applied to another Freeper, personally, in such a way the discussion becomes "about" the individual Freeper instead of the issues. Those words include "misrepresentation" "detraction" "disinformation" "distortion" "hyperbole" and "doublespeak."

Another example, calling a group of Freepers "anti-Mormon" attributes motive to them as a group which is not technically "making it personal" - but saying that another Freeper, personally, is anti-Mormon [or anti-Catholic] instead of anti-MormonISM is an ad hominem. It is "making it personal."

Can't you argue for your beliefs without calling others anti-Catholic and accusing them of lying?

[ealgeone]

Can't you argue for your beliefs without calling others anti-Catholic and accusing them of lying?

Nope. He cannot.

[vladimir998]

“Can’t you argue for your beliefs without calling others anti-Catholic and accusing them of lying?”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3772743/posts?page=317#317