Dick's insults (Claire take note)

Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 20:33:50 -0400 (00893655230, 19980427002305.AAA25153@briandea)




>I did not say that St. Nicolas [sic] of Myra WAS Santa Claus
>now did I? I am not going to repeat what I ACTUALLY said because you
>should be smart enough to read if you are smart enough to be a doctor,
>lawyer, ect [sic].
DICK No, I'm sure that's NOT what you said. If you will read carefully above, I asked you if that is what you MEANT, since your meanings are frequently unclear. If you believe falsely that I cannot read, then you're a fool of a jackass to be writing me, aren't you? However, yet once more, you have avoided and evaded any sort of logic reply and only used name-calling and ridicule as the fool you are. I asked how you knew about this alleged punch since NO human being could now KNOW such a thing. But you failed to try to support your silly assertion, your false claim, and pretense to knowledge no one could have. You ignore the old lies you're caught at and move on to new ones. BRIDEAN Then how do you know that Jesus was merely a common criminal?
>>How can you say that Jesus was no more God than Tod and yet tell
>>people that they should learn basic Christianity from the Roman Catholic
>>church?

>DICK
>How? Easy. I just type out the words on my somewhat noisy
>keyboard. Basic Christianity must learned from Catholicism
>since that was the ONLY Christianity until Martin Luther
>started his competing church and then married a nun. The
>advanced Christianity about Jesus can come only after the
>basic Christianity is understood.

>BRIDEAN
>No, it wasn't the ONLY Christianity until Martin Luther. There was (and
still is)
>Orthodoxy, but of course since you have no way of knowing reality you didn't
>know that did you?
DICK Orthodoxy? Do you imagine that Orthodoxy differs in any doctrine from the ONE Christianity? No Pope ever considered the Orthodox non-Christian. They were excommunicated in 1054 and of course, excommunication can only be done of Catholics, not infidels. The excommunication was lifted in 1965 by Pope John Paul VI. But even prior to that, the sacraments of the Orthodox were and are valid. BRIDEAN So, are the Orthodox part of the Catholic church? Or are they schismatic?
>Have you ever heard of Nestorius? The whole history of
>Christianity was pretty much one sect versus another from the very beginning.
DICK Nestorius? Have you ever heard of Christianity, the word I used? Nestorius was a human being, not a sect or religion. Nestorius was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church until deposed and exiled. The Nestorians were Christians, part of the communion of saints. The Chaldean Nestorian Christians were reunited with Rome in the 1500's. The sacraments of the Nestorians were valid. You seem to have great difficulty in knowing who were Christians and who were not, and what was a religion and what was not, and just what schisms and heresies mean, especially compared to sects, religions and churches. You don't know enough to discuss Christianity intelligently. BRIDEAN So are the Nestorians Catholic? Or are they schismatic? Did you know that there was a conference held recently between the Nestorians and Catholics to determine what they had in common? Or better yet, how about the Gnostics? Were the Gnostics part of the Catholic church?