| | Third, until Conservapedia has a Protestant editor who is willing to tackle the disputes that Bible believing Protestants have with Catholic theology, I think the essay should just remain an essay. Except for a few disputes I had with a few Catholic evolutionist regarding evolutionism, I have not chosen to tackle the Protestant vs. Catholic topic. Instead, I have focused a significant portion of my editing related to atheism related topics. In addition, given that the owner of Conservapedia is Catholic, if I were to choose to tackle the Protestant vs. Catholic issue, it would be at another website. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 02:26, 2 March 2017 (EST) | | Third, until Conservapedia has a Protestant editor who is willing to tackle the disputes that Bible believing Protestants have with Catholic theology, I think the essay should just remain an essay. Except for a few disputes I had with a few Catholic evolutionist regarding evolutionism, I have not chosen to tackle the Protestant vs. Catholic topic. Instead, I have focused a significant portion of my editing related to atheism related topics. In addition, given that the owner of Conservapedia is Catholic, if I were to choose to tackle the Protestant vs. Catholic issue, it would be at another website. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 02:26, 2 March 2017 (EST) |
| − | :Conservative, I feel with you the same concerns. Having been myself a protestant Bible-Christian, a fundamentalist, and an amateur anti-Catholic Protestant witness and apologist in my youth, high school and college years, and then a New Age [[Esoteric]]ist and sorcerer, and afterward a Western Buddhist (even having experienced [[satori]]), and then being suddenly converted by a wholly unexpected personal encounter with Jesus Christ Himself, and additionally encouraged by an on-going increasing knowledge of history, much of what I have contributed to Conservapedia has dealt with both Protestant and Catholic points of view on several doctrinal and historical issues and events (see e.g. [[Biblical Canon]] article "view history"), always supported by reliable sources that can be accessed, checked and verified. Being experientially sensitive to the controversies "from the inside", and a knowledge of [[Logical fallacies]] and [[Specious reasoning]], I have quietly "tackled" them in balanced relevant statements in my contributions on the Bible and Christian doctrine giving the overview of a spectrum of opinions and facts. | + | :Conservative, I feel with you the same concerns. Having been myself a protestant Bible-Christian, a fundamentalist, and an amateur anti-Catholic Protestant witness and apologist in my youth, high school and college years, and then a New Age [[Esoteric]]ist and sorcerer, and afterward a Western Buddhist (even having experienced [[satori]]), and then being suddenly converted by a wholly unexpected personal encounter with Jesus Christ Himself, and additionally encouraged by an on-going increasing knowledge of history, much of what I have contributed to Conservapedia has dealt with both Protestant and Catholic points of view on several doctrinal and historical issues and events, always supported by reliable sources that can be accessed, checked and verified (see e.g. [[Biblical Canon]] article "view history", also [[Great Apostasy]] and [[''The Two Babylons'']]). Being experientially sensitive to the controversies "from the inside", and a knowledge of [[Logical fallacies]] and [[Specious reasoning]], I have quietly "tackled" them in balanced relevant statements in my contributions on the Bible and Christian doctrine giving the overview of a spectrum of opinions and facts. |
| | :Having now read your ''apologion'' above, I heartily agree with you that given the current unavailability of Ambassador the essay ''will not be transformed into an article and should not be'', since it was sincerely put forth initially by Ambassador as a classic expression of the traditional anti-Catholic apologetical argument, a well-framed [[polemic]], fairly complete. Since Ambassador admitted an honest desire to revise the Essay, but expressed regret that there is not opportunity at present to do so, I have personally considered the possibility myself of copying and revising the text separately of the existing Essay Page, and framing the body of the text in a more neutral form with the existing list of assertions in the Essay balanced by rebuttals drawn from external Catholic sources with links, including at the top (of the proposed article) a statement that it is based on the Essay by Ambassador, together with a parenthetical note "(See [[Essay:Reasons the Catholic Church is Unbiblical]])". | | :Having now read your ''apologion'' above, I heartily agree with you that given the current unavailability of Ambassador the essay ''will not be transformed into an article and should not be'', since it was sincerely put forth initially by Ambassador as a classic expression of the traditional anti-Catholic apologetical argument, a well-framed [[polemic]], fairly complete. Since Ambassador admitted an honest desire to revise the Essay, but expressed regret that there is not opportunity at present to do so, I have personally considered the possibility myself of copying and revising the text separately of the existing Essay Page, and framing the body of the text in a more neutral form with the existing list of assertions in the Essay balanced by rebuttals drawn from external Catholic sources with links, including at the top (of the proposed article) a statement that it is based on the Essay by Ambassador, together with a parenthetical note "(See [[Essay:Reasons the Catholic Church is Unbiblical]])". |