(July 13, 2015 at 10:41 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: But that is not your style. You are a drive-by artist. Queen of the snarky one-liner. And how can we be sure of this? Because the reason you are even here is that your mouth finally got you suspended at CAF.
And yet, Randy, I've managed to remain a member of CAF for over eight years while not giving an inch on my beliefs and without causing uproar whenever I come across people who don't agree with me.
Meanwhile, virtually everything you do turns into an 'omnishambles' and you seem to have an acute ability to annoy even those with similar beliefs. When it's pointed out that it's what you do, what do you do? You deny it and then immediately repeat it.
Let's see what the leader of your church said last week:
Quote:Such unity is already an act of mission, “that the world may believe”. Evangelization does not consist in proselytizing, but in attracting by our witness those who are far off, in humbly drawing near to those who feel distant from God and the Church, those who are fearful or indifferent, and saying to them: “The Lord, with great respect and love, is also calling you to be a part of his people” (Evangelii Gaudium, 113).
Where's the 'attracting by our witness', Randy? Let's face it, you could start a fistfight in an amputee ward.
You see, one of the first things I noticed about you is that you don't behave like a Catholic, you behave like a sub-Josh McDowell Protestant Evangelical with all that mechanistic 'evidence' and repetitive apologetics. You say that I don't discuss your material but your lack of self-awareness is such that you don't appreciate that the reason people don't do that is that they eventually give up trying to do so because of the non-responsive nature of your replies and behaviour.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes