Posted by Lou Pilder on March 5, 2003, at 17:31:17
In reply to To Lou anyone else who may feel offended..., posted by Dena on March 5, 2003, at 10:35:12
Dena,
You wrote,[...I detected no malice or offense in Jonathan's post...].
Are you saying that I am saying that Jonathan's post has malice or offense in it? If so, could you give me the passage that you think indicates that ? If there is one, then I could respond accordingly for the issue of its content deals with [putting down another's belief] by writing such statements as ,[..the orthodox church calls the doctrine of purgatory a {myth} and is a doctrinal error, and is anathematized by the church, and such...] which is [uncivil] by the written code here, because it is OK,IMO, to say that you do not believe in purgatory, but not OK ,IMO, to tell others that their biliefe in purgatory is incorrect, or has no doctrinal support. To make a conlusion that there is no doctrinal support is argumentative and I could, if asked, give a tremendous volume of doctrinal support for the doctrine of purgatory. Uncivil is not malicious, and {offense} is in the eye of the one considering something to be offensive or not, for some could consider the post's content offensive and others could not.
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:200824
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faith/20021227/msgs/206227.html