“Your reply is a pretty pathetic attempt to have it both ways.”
Nope. I just posted what was true.
“To accuse someone of being a statutory rapist of an underage girl with no evidence,”
I never once accused him. I said: “What’s the legal consent age in the Philippines? I wonder if he was a statutory rapist?”
“and wresting this from a partial quote from his book when he was still a young priest, is rather disgusting and underhanded.”
I do not own the book. Therefore, I, JUST LIKE YOU MOST LIKELY, must use an online source and the most obvious online source cannot be used here at FR because it is banned. I therefore used another source which had a shorter quote - which in no way changed the context of the information. Also, it had nothing to do with his being a “young priest”. He was well into adulthood when ordained (age 26 at his own reckoning of years from the full passage).
” I therefore used another source which had a shorter quote - which in no way changed the context of the information.”
So then it seems you don’t even own the book and you used a shorter quote that was out of context with a sentence missing and then speculated that he might be a statutory rapist. Sounds like you made a thorough investigation, unlike his Bishop. You also accused him of being a big liar, without giving any examples of lies he had allegedly told. You are also accusing me of being a liar.
I think you should take a page from Bart himself and leave off the personal attacks altogether:
An Irenic Testimony
By T. L. Jones
“I had the privilege of knowing Bart Brewer and his wife. He was a very kindly man who cared about the salvation of souls. This book recounts the experiences and influences that led him out of the Roman Catholic priesthood and into the evangelical faith and ministry. What impressed me was that Bart didn’t question the sincerity of the seminary students he studied with nor the priests he knew, nor the many Roman Catholic people he grew up with. His burden was to show what the Bible says about the way to eternal life.”
The difference between the character of folks who stay in the RCC compared to those who leave really is a big difference!
18. My Filipina wife was 20 when I met her.