I was only writing about flat earth when I posted that, but it turns out to be even more broadly true than I realized.
Over the the past couple of days, one of the forum's prominent flat-earthers, Truth is Eternal, was posting in support of the heresy of judaizing. Thankfully, Matthew removed the heretical posts and banned him.
Astonishingly, Meg jumped in to defend her flat earth buddy and his erroneous views, even when he was obviously (to everyone else on the forum) taking a heretical position. She was unmoved by quotes from Scripture, the Fathers, and magisterial teaching. She did not concede the Catholic position until another flat-earther told her to. (At least one of them has a basic grasp of Catholicism.)
Given that flat-earthers are constantly going to heretical sites to find support for their odd position, it is not surprising that TiE ended up embracing a heresy. If people immerse themselves in Protestant errors like sola scriptura, it is only natural that it erodes their sensus catholicus.
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It's nice of you to give the benefit of the doubt, but objectively, for all we know, TiE was a Protestant all along.
Whenever he was asked if he was Protestant he suddenly disappeared from the thread, again and again.
He never proposed any specifically Catholic doctrines and often referenced Protestant web sites -- you suppose that's where he GOT his heretical ideas, but for all we know he was familiar with them because that's where he was going ANYWAY for ALL his information because that's what he IS, a Protestant, for all we know.
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You might be presumptuous to believe that Meg and happenby deserve the same broad swath of generosity.
For all we know, they're crypto-Protestants too.
Same goes for Smedley Butler.
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They all act like trolls and talk like trolls. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck........................