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?