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Yes... No!!!! This reminds me of gun control rhetoric, always trying to 'spin' the 'narrative' toward the NRA being solely interested in selling guns irresponsibly "in support of the [gun] industry's bottom line". That's not true of the NRA with gun control and it's not true of the FDA with...

Well at least we know now that they're not withholding any other important information. This was the one thing.

No. I say it because it's true.

No you don't. That's what I'm saying. If that's what I'm doing then I agree with you. I have made it my mission to be the opposite of uninstructable. We pray to the Father and to the Son in the rosary, and we also ask Mary to pray for us. Catholicism is invulnerable to accusations of...

This is basically not only my view, but also Catholicism's view, and it is about grace.

I answered this directly. In Catholicism "putting anything other than God in the place of God" is sacrificing to something other than God the Father. You need to stop acting like you know Catholicism so well that you can instruct me on it. You don't. It has everything to do with it, in...

No. The Church offers Christ Himself.

In Catholicism "the place of God" is accepting the sacrifice of the Mass, which is offered to Him upon an altar. So in order for Catholics to "[put] anything other than God in the place of God" to commit idolatry, we would need to offer sacrifices to something other than the Father.

I just want to make sure that I don't make a bad compromise here. A half a loaf of bread is better than no bread, but a half of a baby is ... hopefully connected with the other half. I don't want to cut MAD in half if it's a baby. If it's a loaf of bread, then I don't have to be as careful...

Turns out, the guy just printed the link's words as if they were his own. Plagiarism. Not my fault. And also, again, just to reiterate, that I was in no way impugning or harming the actual Mr. Tim Staples' reputation: I myself am plenty "nasty" and "foul-mouthed" sometimes, and so I...

"How dare you!!!!"

It's easy to take unexamined capricious contrariness personally. Not my fault.

Agreed! Just for the record, I meant no disrespect to the actual Mr. Staples in offering his own quote from his own Wikipedia article. I myself am extremely "nasty" and "foul-mouthed" at times, so I would only be disrespecting myself to suggest or imply that it somehow detracts from someone's...

Coz I ever claimed to have it? I never did that. Didn't do that. My memory's not faulty in this matter. Maybe in others, sure, but not here. I know what I saw, because it's the only reason I even thought to mention what I did. I did nothing wrong or even incorrect or inaccurate. It's...

See below. Spin. There's a more charitable way to describe my posts in this thread, and you've opted not to go that route. For some reason. For some contrary reason.

lol so you are the all knowing user here who knows what every single user ever posted ever and you can positively rule out that what I'm saying happened happened. Any ideas why you must be so contrary all the time?

Except one. Where he did. I didn't dream it up.

It existed, if it does not presently exist. It's the only reason I'm even mentioning it. I didn't dream it up.

And on one of those articles, this particular 'sock' account did claim to be its author, and the author was Mr. Staples. I'll attempt to find it.

Well, I don't know: maybe. But this is a quote from Mr. Staples' Wikipedia page today, purporting to be in his own words: " In spite of the jousting, we became good friends. But when it came to religion, Christian charity would often go out the window." So whatever is meant by "jousting" and...