Mgr Gaume,
Credo or The Refuge of a Christian, 1890, pg. 18 --
In an age when the sophist is king, reasoning no longer has any worth, or very little. With a scalpel in one hand, his candle-snuffer in another, here comes the sophist to attack the most solid of your arguments. He obscures them, dissects them, denatures them, hides from them, and he ends by delivering them to the mocking laughter of the crowd, the ignorant and the lettered.
My one question is, how did Mgr. Gaume meet Caminus way back in 1890? Did he have a time-machine? Remember Caminus is the one who sees no heresy in the Joint Declaration on Justification. And when cornered, he just says "I don't find the Dimonds' arguments convincing."
That is what it always comes down to with these pseudo-intellectuals who bend over backwards to defend HERETICS and DESTROYERS of Holy Mother Church. Whatever you say as a sede is emotional or extreme. They paint themselves as reasonable and patient and following theological strictures. But whenever you make a point based on clear facts, they just say "I'm not convinced." All their supposed intellect falls apart, and they are reduced to an immature four-year old brat sticking his fingers in his ears and going "I can't hear you, na na na."
I'm sure there is a name for this junk they do -- is it Alinsky? Some kind of psychological technique. One day the world will wake up to your
SOPHISTRY, though, because that's all it is, built on thin air, trying to scare people not only away from true theology, but away from common sense, freezing the resistance and pumping blood into this abomination they've set up in Rome.
I pity you when you meet God with your mingy, pitiful distinctions that oftentimes really are none, Caminus. Because while you may fool some people here, God, who is truth, knows very well that there is a difference between DISTINGUISHING, and DEFORMING, DENATURING, OBSCURING and, with the most shameless bad faith, EVADING the arguments of others, like you have evaded all of Cecilia's points in this thread, reduced to the lamest of defenses: "Women should take care of hearth and home, don't worry your pretty little head."
Are you going to trade going to heaven just so, in your own mind, you can continue to be right, even though secretly you must know you're not? Or are you going to be a man and show some humility? Don't miss out on eternity with God just because you don't want to give ground to a stranger on the Internet. Because while I don't say you're a heretic, necessarily, you are so deep into downplaying and downgrading heresy and trying to make it seem harmless, that you might as well be, O king of BAD FAITH.