The Great and Powerful Jeff makes a prediction: This is going to be a mean, nasty thread.
I agree.
It’s got too many topics to present a reasonable hope that any of them would be dealt with well.
And unfortunately both the original article and the response seem unable to resist taking gratuitous digs which shed no light but do raise the temperature.
Dear boatbums, tempted as I am (I would LOVE to go after the apostolic tradition question if only to see if we could do it without knives flying through the air,) I’m going to decline. People seem unable or unwilling to do the analysis necessary to have a productive disagreement.
It’s an interesting article, but it doesn’t raise any questions in my alleged mind.
I hope you are well.
I wish it weren’t. It doesn’t have to be. Shouldn’t people be able to respectfully discuss why they believe what they do?