@CRV
I have read all of your post.
I guess you and I when reading through the thread came to different viewpoints.
I had no quibble with vern other than the comment which I quoted and asked a simple question of whether that was necessary to be added at all as it read as being impolite. I felt it could have been left out and still gotten verns thoughts across just as well, which was behind my post at #15.
It was the way it was worded with the emphasis being on “you” as it was in all capitals, plus the word bleep being a replacement for swearing (or that is as how I am accustomed to people using it in that way) which combined with the rest of that sentence, reads as a question/challenge. As in who do you think you are, what authority do you have type of attitude (how I wish I could say it, which would better explain what I mean).
My other posts you’ve numbered, were my explanations of my reasoning to vern.
And yes, this was the start of the thread veering off course from what the original poster started.
The forum rules also state we are to be polite amongst other things in our posting to others.
My initial post querying verns comment was polite and rather tame compared to some comments written by others on other threads of which I have read.
Poor amazingcatholic! Only on CAF could this happen to a perfectly wonderful thread about finally acquiring a bible! Shakespeare’s play, “Much Ado About Nothing” is a good summary.
Yes, vern’s “YOU” was in caps, and probably meant pretty much as you thought, but it was addressed to a fictional future questioner (of the vein suggested by Nigel7), not to anyone on CAF. He used that example as evidence of how he enjoys using the NAB in apologetics, explaining to you that the sentence you dislike is his standard retort to people who are questioning the authority of the Church. He did refer to “‘bible study’ with Protestants.” Since he used quotes, I took that to mean bull sessions in which the bible may have been animatedly discussed, but not in an official bible study class. At no time, though, was vern impolite to anyone on the thread.
I don’t know how to do things such as make bold or italic print or links on the computer, nor on my iPhone, which is all that I use now. Several of us use caps for a word or phrase to indicate that we’re stressing them. I see nothing wrong with it. A big paragraph is a different story.
“Bleep” is a perfectly good word, regardless of what it may represent. In the past few days I’ve read unchallenged words here that rhyme with kiss, kissed, kissable, shoo, loop, drew, and paid—none of which raised the standards level, and all of which didn’t belong on CAF, in my opinion, but that was only my opinion.
I have seen people misinterpret, jump the gun, go off on a tangent, and never back down as long as they lived. I’ve endured decades of heartache because of misunderstandings and false accusations. I can’t sit quietly while someone else is falsely accused.
