Reply #148: You want to rehabilitate some 17th polemic, largely forgotten by everyone

[struggle4progress]

except some rightwing fundamentalists and others who operate in a similar mindset

The issue, that you pretend to want to discuss, is of practical interest to a very small subset of those who want to take Catholic communion, and they are perfectly able to discuss the various practical and theological issues (as seen by the Catholic church) with their local religious leaders

I do not find the Catholic view threatening modern science or medicine, but any detailed "discussion" with you on the subject will run along predictable and uninformative rhetorical lines

So it would be entirely inappropriate for me, as a non-Catholic, who agrees the Catholics on some points and disagrees on others, to attempt to explain the Catholic view for you in any detail, either in my own words or by pointing to websites, especially as you have no practical interest here but merely intend to ridicule them, a mean-spirited and intellectually silly project

I do expect, of course, that I better able to determine whether a view is mine, or someone else's, than you are able to determine whether the view is mine, or someone else's -- and you, of course, know that and would accept it if you were interested in any ordinary civil discussion: but since your interests are mockery, you cannot acknowledge that in your rhetoric, and so sneer when I say say certain views are someone else's