Mortal Sins?

[Cam42]

[quote]you asked about mortal sin
Apotheoun answered about what mortal sin is
Cam showed what the CCC had to say and provided another scriptural support
you responded that you disagree, provided a few opinions about scripture
everyone responded to these points
Apotheoun simply commented that we have different ways of viewing scripture.
You came out claiming that we were all being bigoted and not allowing you to debate et cetera et cetera
then jezic apparently declared the forum closed to honest debate[/quote]

AHEM.....IS THIS THING ON? ATTENTION!!!!!!!

This is a classic example of a straw man fallacy. For one who claims to be a....

[quote] student of debate and there is a proper form a debating.[/quote]

He doesn't understand that a fallacy is not an acceptable way of debating. Thanks for the point by point, Al, you clarified the position.

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='Mikhail' date='Jun 19 2005, 02:31 AM'][. . .]
Apotheoun, you would think someone who has seen the "truth" wouldn't be so closeminded and judgemental. Also, it would seem you would be a little more understanding of people who don't believe exactly like you. If you aren't interested in debating it with me, no one asked you to post on thread. You could simply walk away.
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I think you see aggression where there is none intended, but perhaps that is only your rhetorical style. As I indicated in my previous post, I am more than happy to have a dialogue on the presuppositions underlying our respective positions. But what I am not interested in a doing is having a so-called "debate" that is nothing more than a tit for tat throwing out of texts of Sacred Scripture with each of us giving our respective and divergent interpretations to them, and in the process accomplishing nothing.

Now as far as being closed minded is concerned, if I were truly closed minded I would never have converted to Catholicism in the first place, nor would my theological views have moved from Thomism to Palamism over the last three years, but then as G. K. Chesterton once said, "Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Otherwise, it could end up like a city sewer, rejecting nothing."