I would disagree with how things went down.  If one were to make a judgment based on the original post (accusation of pride), then it might be a "public" revelation about THAT post.  And, even so, one would need to interpret that same post the same way to make the same judgment (in fact, we have seen that a number of posters in the original thread that did NOT judge it the same way).

I would say that when someone refers to LT's POSTING HISTORY here, then that is at least detraction despite the fact that all of his posting history is technically "public".  Why?  Because there are many members and lurkers here, many new posters in fact, that may not be aware of "LT's posting history".  Heck, I've been here a long time and I am not aware of all of his posts.  So, in that sense, it was a revelation of a supposed hidden fault.

If we're all honest with ourselves, we know that none of us are blameless and none of our posting histories are spotless.  In fact, I suspect that each and every one of us are.....prideful at least at times.  

The whole matter is....ironic.

Case in point: I am a lurker and didn't think there was any reason to think he was being Pharasaical (I never saw and refuse to read what everyone is referring too) but now it's in my mind that there might be! I'm still not going to look up what people are referring to but it just shows that detraction is so easy.

And I wouldn't have cared except for the fact that Last Trad went after Matto about it as if it were a personal attack, "Et tu, Brute?"

You can protest that we're arguing technicalities, but it was YOU who misconstrued Matto's clarification as a personal attack, and that's when I decided to chime in, since you had it wrong there.

I don't know if you are guilty of pride because I cannot read your soul. One time a few months ago or maybe a year ago when you were talking about the things you often talk about it seemed to me that you were being prideful so I warned you that I thought your posts seemed prideful. My point today was that Bonaventure was accusing you of something public, whereas I always thought detraction was revealing a secret sin.

I agree with that.  Perhaps my comments belonged in the original thread (actually all of these comments could have stayed in the original thread).  

You add to it the fact that there's a separation from the person's reputation due to the fake persona of "Last Tradhican" on the interwebs.  So the real person is not taking the hit to any kind of reputation.

Finally, I would agree that the sentiments regularly posted by Last Trad are in fact blameworthy, and a public rebuke may be in order.  I think a lot of service was done in bringing this type of Pharisaical attitude to light lest other Traditional Catholics slide into the mentality.  If he's publicly promoting these types of attitudes, then he can rightfully and justly be rebuked for them.

I've been called a lot worse here on CI, and the fact that Last Trad is being such a baby about it that he has to start an entire thread defending himself speaks to the veracity of the charges.  Last Trad, take this as an invitation to examine your conscience and then move along.

Nice try, but that's false.  Detraction!  (See how easy that is to do?)

The issue started in this post when ByzCat3000 rightfully called out Last Trad as coming off as "pharisaic." There are presently 7 upvotes to ByCat3000's comment, so obviously it's not only ByzCatt3000's (nor my own) opinion on the matter.

 One would think, if one were a pious, God-fearing individual, that if one were accused of being "pharisaic," which others apparently agreed with as evinced by the number of upvotes, that said person would pause and reflect on the accusation, concerned that it may contain veracity.  Not Last Trad, though.  Instead, he doubles down, accusing others of detraction (which, if you think about it, if we are to accept Last Trad's definition of that word, is itself detraction), going so far as to start a new whiney thread about it.

 

After thinking about it, I'm going to have to amend the one-and-only CathInfo Beatitude (added language in bold): "Blessed are us few Trad, for we, and only we, are entitled to the Kingdom of Heaven."

Why do you post here at Cathinfo?  You seem to not like it here.