to my Catholic friends

[fpb]

Don't waste your time trying to defend the Church. There is no point: the haters don't want to be set straight - it is too convenient to them to recycle the filth of the New Jerk Lines and its repulsive accomplices. If anyone comes at you with the kind of excrement that has been coming through the wrong orifice of media persons in their jolly progress towards Hell, just dump them on the spot and save yourselves some grief. Remember the parable of the pearls and the swine; there has rarely been a clearer case of swinishness in human behaviour. So leave them strictly alone to damn themselves in their own time.

Comments

[cheyinka]

I just... I can't, I guess. I have people on my reading list whom I know I will always provoke an angry reaction if I post stuff like this, and to some degree that's a purpose in itself, as I have many fewer readers than you so I don't need to worry about getting zergrushed or anything.

On the other hand I use my journal sometimes as a trial run of arguments I know I'll need to make IRL; I don't have any Catholic friends IRL, and honestly "I guess you have a point" or "well I don't want to argue with you any more" are sufficient victories for me, as long as I feel that I've been well-prepared.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you have more patience in your little finger than I in my whole body, and for that I honour you. All the same, I would not even approach someone I know will be prejudiced against the Church to the extent many people are thanks to the vile media.