Athanasius punched Arius in the face.
I'm tired of the complaints about the lack of civility. It is partly true, and I have done much work trying to become more charitable and more patient myself, which is pretty hard when you're dealing with those slippery guys using communist smears that the SSPX produces ineluctably.
But I see that notion of "lack of charity" being used very often to excuse errors, as well as the passive-aggressive sophistry of certain members of this board.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. SSPX and the sedes can't BOTH be right.
When St. Augustine was refuting an error, he'd write a book about it and get the backing of the other orthodox clergy and the Pope. He didn't come on a website and go around and around in circles, futilely. That is trying to beat sophists at their own game. I have learned my lesson on that one.
A sedevacantist/privationist like Father Noel Barbara did an excellent job refuting certain SSPX errors, as well as problems with the stance of Abp. Lefebvre. But how many people are going to find copies of Fortes in Fide?
Until then, I'll do what I can, in my limited and insignificant place, to try to nudge people in the right direction. But arguing on the website has lost all appeal. I think the sedevacantist argument has been set out effectively by many people on the Internet, and those who want to know just have to go and look. I see no need for the eternal repetition of saying the same thing over and over.
The SSPX position on the other hand, and unfortunately this is notorious, is not logical, it's emotional, and you can't argue with emotion-driven folk. Someone is in SSPX because they are afraid of saying the Pope isn't the Pope, they think they might go to hell if they're wrong, or else because they don't want to be too "extreme," or else they're concerned that maybe they'd disrupt their lives, etc. But theologically, the SSPX position doesn't stand up, and with every day that passes it gets closer to Old Catholicism. The disdain for the papacy seen in many SSPX people is notable. They simply don't seem to care if there is a Pope or not, and they even go so far as to mock sedes for being "obsessed" with the "Pope issue," as if it's essentially irrelevant.