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It's tiresome
You know, I try to ignore the hateful things some people say about my religion. It was fairly easy up till now because I live in a rather strongly Christian community. Then some bozo from the University of Morris just an hour or so up the road had to make a stink about the Eucharist. He called it a frickin' cracker and several other things. Mostly he called it a cracker. He also seems to be under the impression that the Catholic Church as one of its dogmas claims that Jews are inferior.

... Right. Obviously someone doesn't know what dogma is.

"But according to a long-standing usage a dogma is now understood to be a truth appertaining to faith or morals, revealed by God, transmitted from the Apostles in the Scriptures or by tradition, and proposed by the Church for the acceptance of the faithful. It might be described briefly as a revealed truth defined by the Church -- but private revelations do not constitute dogmas, and some theologians confine the word defined to doctrines solemnly defined by the pope or by a general council, while a revealed truth becomes a dogma even when proposed by the Church through her ordinary magisterium or teaching office. A dogma therefore implies a twofold relation: to Divine revelation and to the authoritative teaching of the Church."

From The Catholic Encyclopedia.

Okay, so the definition isn't exactly simple. Basically it's the stuff about the Church that doesn't change. Jesus is God and Man. That's dogma. God is Three Persons, One God. That's dogma. Read the Apostle's Creed. What's in there is dogma. There really isn't much else that is.

But back to this rather sickening business. I was tempted to pull out all my apologetic stops. Do research and counter argue every one of his points.

But that would involve actually reading his stuff. I did, in part. I was sickened. He claimed to be getting death threats, though he never posted any excerpts. He did post other letters he got. Mostly saying he's evil or they're going to pray for him. One accused him of being a Freemason, which is pretty weird I think. But yeah.

It's just tiring. There's no way I'm going to change his mind. Anyone who's mind I might change could just as easily go to any one of a number of apologetic sites on the web. Most of which are much better than anything I could come up with.

And I'm just so sick of this attitude. This is part of the reason I left college in the first place.

Sigh.