This is the first part of a series on civility in online discussions. See this index. By default, ideas should be separated from the person. Personal beliefs are—at best—tangential to arguments. Attacking ideas means that no one is required to be involved in a discussion, even if the idea originated …
NOTE: This article is kept for historical reasons. The matter is now closed. Please see here for more information. Over at Sigma Frame, Jack is concerned about violations to his comment policy. Jack had questioned a man’s claim to be a Christian, in clear violation of his own comment policy. …
The last time I wrote about GunnerQ, in “Lying to Combat Lying“, was when he falsely accused me of lying and misrepresented the biblical teaching on telling lies. In that post I laid out how being wrong is not lying, but requires intent. Remarkably, Gunner agrees with me that lying …
In “God STILL Has Eyewitnesses To the Bible” (children please do not click the link), GunnerQ took issue with my recent post “Patriarchal Forgery?” and by implication raised the age old question about what constitutes a lie. There he used some disrespectful language and accused me of being a liar …
This the eleventh in a series reviewing John C. Wright’s A Universal Apologia for the Catholic Church. See the index. A Question of Disunity The issue of unity within Christianity is the fifth argument that convinced John C. Wright of the truth of Roman Catholic claims. Upon his conversion, he was, and …
Over at Sigma Frame blog, Jack gives three things you can do if you are married man and a woman signals that she wants a relationship: Ignore it. Acknowledge and escalate Acknowledge and reframe the situation into something redemptive. Of these, Jack rejects the first two. But underlying all of …
Though I am mostly apolitical (I do not vote), I can be classified as a political centrist (not a compromising moderate). This means I don’t land anywhere in particular on the political spectrum. I chose my views independently of any party line. I also apply my criticisms across the board. …
Dalrock has taken a break from his time consuming screeching about Warhorn to deal with the problem of single mothers not having any marital prospects. A commenter, Bee, suggested that single mothers give their children up for adoption at birth. As a parent of three adopted children, shouldn’t I get behind this …
This is part of a series on Roman Catholicism. See this index. I’ve written in the past on the logical difficulties with the papacy. The Catholic Church uses fallacious reasoning to justify itself.[1] Doctrine is produced by papal authority. Those doctrines are defended by appeals to papal authority. Papal authority …