>> If this is a left wing assault against Roman Catholics, how can this be so, when the majority of Catholics that voted in 2008 voted for Obama - a left winger by most people’s account account here at FR? <<
It’s a pro-abortion assault against the Catholic church. And 66% of Catholic church-goers voted AGAINST Obama... it’s just that Catholic non-church-goers live in predominantly ultra-blue states, so when they revert to voting as non-Christians, they revert to voting as ultra-left wingers. Check out how non-Catholics from Massachusetts, New York, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Illinois vote!
Cafeteria Catholics.
Suspected this was a hit piece on the Catholic Church by the Atheist Leftists. One of their favorite targets.
On FR most people realize that the argumentum ad hominem consists of using an assertion about a speaker to claim that he spoke wrongly.
For instance, “X is a a moron, therefore what he said is wrong.”
This is not the same thing as a simple insult. For instance, “You claimed that Socrates is not mortal even though he is a man and all men are mortal. That is illogical and incorrect. Oh, by the way, you are a despicable cretin.”
That is not an ad hominem.
What got up lf’s bloomers was an insult. “Somebody insulted me, so I decided to attack the Catholic Church by posting crap that’s been gone over again and again, and mostly shown to be unsupported.”
And no, I’m not going to bother to ping him. He doesn’t deserve the courtesy.
Hopefully, no one in Ireland voted for Obama.
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