Some things I don't stand for.

[azurelunatic]

If you agree with this guy, please let me know. John C. Wright makes Orson Scott Card look classy as far as opinions about me and mine go.

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[logomancer]

What got my goat -- and why I did this -- was that the motive behind his deletion wasn't that he thought the post was stupid; he did it because people were "slandering" his page on Wikipedia by calling him a homophobe and citing the post. First, with all of his legal training, he should know that it isn't slander in the US if it's true. Second, he did it to cover his arse and keep people from criticizing him for his beliefs, which are well deserving of criticism.

Another mirror of the comment is here, BTW.

[ivorygates]

Thank you!

Having read several of his posts and pendant comments following that one, I submit that JCW is an object of pity as well. He's been trumpeting far and wide the fact that he's a Christian [apparently a Catholic] and saying he forgives those who "persecute" him because he is "obligated" to do so, even though he continues to refer to both the people he has slandered and the people who disagree with him with loaded and perjorative language.

Does he not GET that if he is unable to refrain from doing so, he is not only *not* acting in a spirit of reconciliation, but lying about it and so compounding that which his religion and sect believes to be a transgression in the first place? It's 2bad nobody's made up a Sin Bingo Card, because I'm pretty sure he's hit at least three of the Major League Sins: Pride, Falsehood, and Slander ["slander" may not be in the starting lineup; i'm not entirely sure].

While stupidity isn't a sin, either he's stupid or he thinks his readership is. And the self-identified Christians commenting to his posts don't seem to possess enough love for their co-religionist to point out in how many way's he's screwing the pooch here...

[azurelunatic]

Sin bingo ought to have columns for each major category of sin, right?

http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/mortal_versus_venial.htm

Slander seems to be listed in the starting lineup according to them!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venial_sin
http://www.saintaquinas.com/mortal_sin.html

vainglory (pride), avarice, gluttony, lust, sloth, envy, anger.

Desire to be Right On The Internet is a form of Pride, I think.

[ivorygates]

in order to fill out the Bingo Card, I'd include both Mortal and Venial sins, i think. and i'd say the conviction one was right -- as opposed merely to the desire to be right -- definitely seats the holder in the "Sin of Vainglory" section...