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Didn’t mean to imply you’d said “idly finger.” Sorry for that.

You may choose to see my fierceness as insulting to beliefs. Folks may choose to see such as insulting to their person.

I’m certainly derisive etc. to beliefs I find to be hostile to Scripture and high priority Biblical standards . . . with certain folks demonstrating a certain sort of attitude and outrageousness in their own communications.

I’m quite careful in my wording to avoid personal assault and not only in behalf of forum rules. I have no personal nor Christian need to assault persons. Persons, I love.

Blasphemy and idolatry and related outrages I hate. I’ve seen the destructiveness in my own life. It’s truly frightful.

I don’t see my word contributions to be gratuitous, per se, at all. I understand that you do.

The next paragraph of yours is wholesale inaccurate. I’m typically the first to confess and repent to God and man in most situations.

The complexities and distances between our two camps are somewhat symbolized by the distances between the most forceful of the two groups of pontificators. They are not easy to articulate well, much less deal with well.

I’ve seen tons of Protty efforts to do back flips trying to bridge the gap toward RC’s.

It has often appeared that a number of the RC’s in obviously insensitive, blind ignorance of such or hostility to such have appeared to be happy to shred even such efforts in the fiercest, harshest, most abusive terms.

Yet the Prottys are the ones who get the pontifical lectures about their behaviors! LOL.

The Prottys are the ones who get the harsh personal abuse. The Prottys are the ones who get outrageous statements made about their heart motives etc. . . . yet another example of generous . . . even . . . gratuitous . . . personal attack and hostility.

A fair number of RC’s get only or virtually only sweetness and light from me publically and privately. I wonder why that is.

Look, we all get the idea that you are opposed to the tenets of Catholicism. Employ your opposition with some level of "responsibility." Try, at least, to avoid silly and gratuitously insulting coinages like "Maryanity," and your oft-used "magicsterical." The word, BTW, is "magisterial." Try to keep your hostilities at least on-point with the topic at hand, rather than employ the childish and tiresome tactic of loosing a shotgun blast of all of your sound-bite sized objections without evidence, nearly every single time you appear on threads of a Catholic nature. None of these tendencies is particularly conducive to "debate," or even to civilized disagreement. One can disagree with someone else's POV without turning the forum into a circus and/or a cesspool.

Didn’t mean to imply you’d said “idly finger.” Sorry for that.

Thank you. Apology accepted.

Evidence, please. Yes, there are a few Catholics who get testy, but they are generally doing that on Catholic threads that are in the process of being hijacked or turned into a sewer. They are, at least, defending their own on their own soil, so to speak. And, even then, almost always, the instances are of a low percentage of the total posts. Very little of that behavior is found on Protestant-based threads as perpetrated by Catholics. Yes, it exists, but the examples are minimal, especially when contrasted with what goes on routinely on Catholic-interest threads by non-Catholics. It is simply silly to assert otherwise. Any neutral observer of this forum would concur with this assessment.