How exactly did CathInfo "this group" express a "unanimous belief" in this story? Was there a poll taken that I'm not aware of?
Manuel, you can't blame us for your own emotions and feelings. They really don't count for much. Only the facts matter. And the facts are that no one has expressed unanimous anything. Most of the membership hasn't even read or chimed in on this thread, for crying out loud! That's the REALITY and FACTS if you care about such things.
Hey, at least we're getting somewhere...where you're coming from, I mean. So your FEELZ tell you that all of CathInfo has a unanimous belief in Catholicus' story.
Great. Good for your feelz. The subtotal of your strongest feelings for a whole day, plus a dollar, will get you a candy bar.
Even if people were to concede that most of Catholicus' claims were fabricated (which I don't necessarily think they were), I think that diabolical activity remains the most likely explanation for what has gone on at Boston.
It's been said before, but Father Pfeiffer clearly isn't dumb. We have to assume that he received a solid seminary formation, being ordained when he was, before things really started to go South, so he's clearly been taught the fundamentals of moral and sacramental theology. He's also not a coward, personality wise. Having met him and spent time with him, I find it hard to believe that he'd let himself be duped or intimidated through any normal means. He's a strong personality and won't cowtow to anyone.
He also doesn't seem to be mentally ill, or out of his mind in a medical sense. I mean, he seems fairly lucid.
What then, would cause a person like Fr Pfeiffer to progressively cut himself off from essentially every other Resistance personality out there, to savage +Williamson repeatedly, and, above all, to continue against best advice to cavort with Mr. Moran, to destroy so many relationships etc.?
Like I said, we can rule out improper seminary formation or training. We can likely rule out lack of intellect, as he is a reasonably smart man. We can (probably) rule out mental illness....what are the remaining explanations? The fact is that his behaviour is far beyond the spectrum of normal.
If not straight up possession, then some sort of oppression or diabolical influence honestly seems to be the most compelling explanation at this point.
True as they may be (and I'm inclined to think that they are), we don't even need stories of moonlight woods or plastic bags of blood to reasonably suspect that something diabolical is going on at Boston...