I vote John2020 should NEVER be banned, no matter how stupid his posts get.
Yes, he is very stupid. He has shown time and again that he cannot adequately comprehend the structure and meaning of sentences on a page, nor can he tease out the necessary and important implications of complex expressions of thought from insignificant passing elements. What is much worse, however, is that he is ignorant of those matters where he falsely asserts mastery, and he is particularly ignorant of the meaning of the terminology he slings around with abandon. This fundamental ignorance, even more than his thickheadedness, reduces every claim of his to total insignificance.
Take, for a single example among several, his utter confusion with regard to the proper use in an ecclesiological context of the adjectives
licit and
legitimate, their associated nouns, and their negations. If one judges from his use, he plainly thinks that the two terms are largely interchangeable. This root-level confusion makes nonsense of his already trite analyses. Sadly, what he ultimately communicates to others—namely, a confusion whose origin is within himself—has also, like an infection, carried over from his blatherings to some of the responses to them, which sometimes appear to mistake J2020's ignorance and confusion for a species of profundity. Like successful salesmen and politicians, J2020 exhibits a certainty impervious to reflection and doubt, however far he wanders from sense.
In the centuries before the Jєωs compelled the denaturing of vocabulary, ordinary speakers of English would have called J2020 uppity—and that is precisely what he is. His uppityness, which melds neatly with his ignorance to compound his stupidity, is sadly on display in his many foolish comments. They reveal the supreme but baseless self-confidence of a little boy whose mommy and daddy have never told him anything except that he is God's gift to creation.
Because of this witches' brew of potent but undesirable characteristics, I am less sure than Sean is of J2020's harmlessness. People talk rubbish all the time, but few talk it with a degree of confidence that Saint Anthony of Padua or Saint Francis Xavier might have envied.