So there you have it. A post like this is annoying and tiresome, on a Catholic website.When we love someone, we do things that show we love them. Not once a year because it’s their birthday and there’s maybe a sense of obligation. I can’t overlook a birthday. But that showing we care for them should be often.
If there’s any task that can be moved to Saturday or Monday, take that opportunity and say Jesus I love you, save souls.
Well, if you’re going to continue to be evasive, let me lay out for you:Is uncharitable mockery and sarcasm appropriate for a Catholic?
Rather than answer them directly, you instead made a rather bizarre appeal to authority:The “traditional teaching” contemplated a marketplace, not a keyboard.
Since you’re citing modern “traditional priests”, it gives off the impression that what you’re citing is not traditional but the opinion of a few priests. At best, it is saying that some “traditional priests” are against online shopping on Sunday, but by nature of them being modern, it still isn’t worthy of an appeal to traditional teaching, just their opinion of how to approach a relatively new way to shop that, as @Pitcairn17 pointed out, is completely foreign to the mindset of the Church Fathers. I originally pointed this lack of actual traditional appeal:No, I’ve read it recently. I visit a lot of traditional Catholic websites with traditional priests.
At which point you gave an incredibly vague and evasive reference to those who “interpret God’s word accurately”, all while still ignoring the original contention that online shopping, the context of this thread, doesn’t even register in the mindset you’re appealing to. You also completely failed to provide any meaningful expansion on your ideas, which I pointed out with:If it’s only a recent teaching, it’s not traditional.
So with all that in mind, I have to ask: Is being deliberately evasive appropriate for a Catholic? Alternatively: Is refusing to acknowledge that someone has a point, even if just directly addressing it, appropriate for a Catholic? To me, it doesn’t seem all that charitable.I didn’t realize that the early Church knew about Amazon.
I’ve read all your post and this above is just a small portion of its tone. I could have got upset by your language and tone. But the people who have liked lots of my posts are those I consider traditional Catholics with orthodox views. Those who have argued using similar bossy language as yours tend not to be. So I consider myself in good company.So with all that in mind, I have to ask: Is being deliberately evasive appropriate for a Catholic? Alternatively: Is refusing to acknowledge that someone has a point, even if just directly addressing it, appropriate for a Catholic? To me, it doesn’t seem all that charitable.
Seriously? Do you have any idea how Pharisaical you come across to complain about someone else using “bossy” language (which you haven’t been innocent of in this thread), all the while trying to puff yourself up in the eyes of the world? Heck, the part you quoted is me changing the wording of your own question. Have you ever considered that maybe I was genuinely curious and looking for a more cogent argument than what you were presented (which, I think it’s safe to say now, you never had)?I could have got upset by your language and tone. But the people who have liked lots of my posts are those I consider traditional Catholics with orthodox views. Those who have argued using similar bossy language as yours tend not to be. So I consider myself in good company.
But there is one saying you have to go on sunday. Catholicism isn’t anarchic.There ain’t nothing saying that you can’t go to mass on, let’s say Wednesday,