Reply #295: Debate 101 [View All]

[noamnety]

These are the tactics you've used in this thread:

1. Instead of responding to what's been written, you debate imaginary points that were never made.

Examples:

Arguing that Jerry Falwell is a not Catholic - when nobody has said otherwise.

Arguing that most members of the moral majority are not catholic - again, when nobody has said otherwise.

2. False logic:

Example:

Catholics couldn't have started the Moral Majority because most members aren't Catholic.

There was a Christian Right prior to 1900, therefore Catholics could not have been involved in starting the Moral Majority in 1970.

3. Name calling, personal insults, and profanity:

Examples:

"You obviously have adopted the George Bush school of historical analysis."

"patently absurd"

"intellectual dishonesty"

"Delusional"

"reactionary right-wing attacks"

"bullshit"

How about it your next post, you respond to:

a. the source document of the American Catholic Bishops, in which they state their intent to form a coalition with other churches with the express purpose of influencing American politics

b. Bill Moyers' piece on Catholic involvement in the creation of the Moral Majority

And how about you try doing it by discussing THOSE POINTS, rather than attacking me personally? Wouldn't that make for a better discussion?