When I first saw this drop I went down so many rabbit holes...so much sauce in this post alone....😉
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Yes, I've spent the last several years developing an immunity to iocane poisoning.
Please feel free to share that kind of stuff at c/Christianity, and I'll tell you exactly how to slip it past the mods there. Just don't contradict the basic creeds, or denigrate the Catholics or the Jews as a whole (or other groups). Any civil criticism that falls short of that, or demonstrates evidence, is open for discussion.
Yep. Criticize either of those and you can guarantee someone will come along looking for a fight.
It's amazing that they do not see how the way they argue actually makes my points. Especially with Catholics. They cannot argue for their religion, in my experience. There is like one layer of defense/explanation, and then right below that it is them shouting DE FIDE!!! at you over and over again if you make a point they don't like or especially one that makes their religion look bad.
I was called "An Agent of Satan" by one of them the other day. Made me both laugh and "hang my head and cry" (apologies to Johnny Cash). Ridiculousness.
We cultivate criticism and so my suggestion that you visit is valid. (Deprecation of an entire class without evidence is a lot different from criticism and that disappears fast.) We have some Catholics who can dish it out and take it, and we have occasional Catholic visitors who don't realize the former begets the latter and whose accounts self-destruct. So much of the veneer of defense does not actually say what the combatant wanted it to say that the reflexive Catholic is shocked when you hand their own words back to them. (I learned this from a 19th-century debate in which the Protestant handed back the proposition "Protestants don't have an infallible guide" by changing the subject to "Catholics" and demonstrating that the infallibility doctrine has no extant referent whatsoever, and still doesn't.) Appreciate all your thoughts.
"She turned me into a newt!!!
... Well... I got better."
I was a Catholic and culturally will always be. Just as I will never not (also) be a berzerker, by genetics and disposition.
I will think about it. I am not generally "a joiner" and fighting morons for no purpose is not something I have time to do. If you are there I am thinking that latter part won't be an issue.