Practice Apologetics on a Protestant site

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Exporter:
This is an address for a Protestant site. Most of them are very Fundamentalist oriented.

churchofchristdiscussions.com/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=outside

Just try Sola Scriptura, Mary Ever-Virgin or the Early Fathers and you’ll get a responce. They ganged up on me, and will not listen to truth. :o
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Trouble maker… my kinda Catholic. Might be good material for my high school apologetics group. http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon14.gif

MrS
 
aim curious about that website you mention. if i go with this argument do you think i will get an answer. " so then, brothers,stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter" (2th 2:15) the verbal teachings by mouth has an equal authority with the teachings of paul. another verse i would like to try is " all scriptures is god breathed and is useful for teaching,rebuking,correcting and training in righteousness" (2 tim 3:16)this verse never promotes scriptures as the final authority for our faith. this i learned from reading a book written by a fundamentalist now catholic. please let me know if this is good for that website:)
 
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Exporter:
This is an address for a Protestant site. Most of them are very Fundamentalist oriented.

churchofchristdiscussions.com/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=outside

Just try Sola Scriptura, Mary Ever-Virgin or the Early Fathers and you’ll get a responce. They ganged up on me, and will not listen to truth. :o
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Well, that is fairly typical in Evangelical/Fundamentalist discussion sites. You can also try Former Catholics For Christ to “sharpen” your apologetic skills and gain an idea of fundamentalist ad hominem tactics. After all, as cestusdei said, practice makes perfect. 🙂

Gerry
 
Thank you every one. To sharpen your Apologetics, to me, is to deepen your faith.:clapping: :clapping:
 
I just went to the site, Former Catholics for Christ.
Seems this site lacks ALOT of Christian love and charity. 😦

I love a good debate, but it seems that so often, the rules for civility have gone right out the window. :eek:
 
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mkw:
I love a good debate, but it seems that so often, the rules for civility have gone right out the window. :eek:
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I too love a good debate, however (at least for me) I don’t go “looking for a fight” to prove Catholicism correct.

If a topic comes up that questions our faith, I’ll respond with Catholic truth the best way I know how. If I’m looking for answers about something (like trying to understand why protestants beleive in sola scriptura) I’ll post a topic as such. However, I won’t post a topic with the intention of “luring them in” just to prove my point correctly.

If our intentions are Christ-like, the chances for some real dialouge are posible. Just my two cents. 🙂
 
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Exporter:
This is an address for a Protestant site. Most of them are very Fundamentalist oriented.

churchofchristdiscussions.com/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=outside

Just try Sola Scriptura, Mary Ever-Virgin or the Early Fathers and you’ll get a responce. They ganged up on me, and will not listen to truth. :o
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I am the owner of that site.

Exporter showed up unexpectedly on our site, which was designed originally for members of our faith to talk with each other rather than for discussion with people from outside. We allowed him to stay and talked with him, and he repaid our kindness with incredible rudeness, even to the point of posting foul language on our site.

He talks with someone until they ask him questions he does not want to answer, and then he ignores them. Sometimes he claims he can’t understand how to find anything on the site and that he didn’t see the questions. He also ignores it when we answer his questions, which we have.

He talked politely with my wife for awhile, until she asked some questions he did not want to answer, and then suddenly decided that she should not be allowed to post and discuss with him since she was a woman. He did that to at least one other member of our site, as well (a kind lady who has so far been the site’s only sponsor).

He compared one member of our site to some kind of anti-semitic Nazi preacher from south Texas. We never did find out what that was about.

He made so many posts to our site that the original discussion purpose of our site was nearly drowned out. He invaded every single thread he could and tried to turn them into a discussion of the Catholic faith.

All of this time there was a nice lady on our site who was also not a member of our faith. She kindly asked questions, peacefully discussed our differences, and politely expressed her disagreement at times. And I don’t think she ever once called anybody a name or used foul language unbecoming a Christian.

In my most recent discussion with him I responded to one of his posts with a series of questions which he has so far ignored. Each time he posts I remind him of those, but he isn’t answering. His days of doing this on our site are numbered.

We didn’t really set up our site for discussion with people of other faiths. If more people show up and act like Exporter, we’ll probably terminate the experiment of allowing them. Anyone who uses foul language will be banned without warning. Anyone who makes a lot of noise but never responds when someone asks him a question will also not be allowed.

Exporter is a very poor representative of your faith. I am thankful that most of the Catholics I have known in person, including my father’s very best friend, a doctor who has cared for me for years, are not like that.
 
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mkw:
I just went to the site, Former Catholics for Christ.
Seems this site lacks ALOT of Christian love and charity. 😦

I love a good debate, but it seems that so often, the rules for civility have gone right out the window. :eek:
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That is perhaps part of the “test” that you would have to hurdle in such a site. And there are many such sites.

How to handle all forms of uncharitable behaviour with dignity and charity is part of an apologist’s training.

All for the glory of God.

Gerry 🙂
 
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Stylteralmaldo:
I too love a good debate, however (at least for me) I don’t go “looking for a fight” to prove Catholicism correct.
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I agree. Picking fights is not Christian. I had to bight my tounge last week. There have been a party of evangelicals coming into my restaurant every week. I heard then degrading Catholics last week and it was very tough not to ask them where did they get the Bible that they were quoting from? Unfortunatley there are too many evangelical websites on the net that misrepresent Catholicism to count. It would be impossible to answer them all.
 
I started a whole different thread on this topic, “A call to arms,” but I want to make sure everyone hears my “plea.”

The Protest Warrior forum is pretty much a swamp of teenagers yelling at each other, but the “discussions” often turn to Catholic-bashing. I need your help. The current debate, forum.protestwarrior.com/viewtopic.php?t=34343&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=180 is now winding down, but stop by from time to time. I could use the help.

Thanks,
MM
 
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montanaman:
The Protest Warrior forum is pretty much a swamp of teenagers yelling at each other, but the “discussions” often turn to Catholic-bashing. I need your help. The current debate, forum.protestwarrior.com/viewtopic.php?t=34343&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=180 is now winding down, but stop by from time to time. I could use the help.
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I looked through that post, it’s absurd. But obviously they don’t care. There’s no sense in arguing with them. As for calling us idolaters, there’s plenty of scripture passages that goes against this. Why don’t you ask them why they have a fish on their car bumpers? I always love that one. Look at Deuteronomy 4:18.
 
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