Bambi
Nope. I mean, you could have made it a more detailed account of his religious bigotries, but that's the essential core. Unfortunately, and as you seem to be finding out,
Tony1 has constructed a religion whereby he never has to examine his own faults, merely point out the faults in others and say, "at least I'm not them."
Sometimes it reminds me of a biblical character, an accuser of some sort ... what was its name ... I think it starts with an "s".
For Sciforums' sake, this runs back a few months; when confronted with the tangible result of Christianity in history,
Tony1 began employing a sweeping version of the,
Well, they're not Christians defense whereby everything negative resulting from the Christian experience was exscinded by a simple declaration that this or that person wasn't a Christian.
At first it was amusing, since he was largely trying to deny Catholocism--you know, that church without which Christianity would not be such a huge religion ...? But when he went on to call Jonathan Edwards, Puritanism, and Wiccan "Catholic", he's pretty much proved his case as a general misanthrope manifesting his hatreds in the form of anti-Catholocism.
He's denied a fiery Hell as "too Catholic", despite the overwhelming presence of a punishing Hell among Christians in general; he's even gone so far as to insist that the fiery Hell is Catholic despite the depictions in Chick Ministry tracts, whose website includes a diatribe on why Catholics are presently condemned. Original sin is his excuse to distrust everybody, but he sees that distrust as a sacred trust. Generally speaking, it's quite sick.
The only thing I wanted to mention otherwise was to be careful with the word "church". It's incredibly flexible, kind of like "Praise Jesus". The word means whatever a Christian wants it to mean, it seems. Just like two people praising Jesus might be thinking of different--and possibly opposing--attributes, so too do they treat the word church. It is important to regard the body of Christ when speaking of the "solidarity" of Christians. But when doctrinal disagreements and contradictions in faith are pointed out among the "church", the body of Christ quickly becomes diverse individuals because who are we to suppress Christian diversity? Not I, said the duck, but I wonder how well interpretive arguments will sit with Jesus. (Consider Matthew 25, which I've pressed for a while; some of our Christian posters demand the right to not do unto the least of His brethren. Diversity, indeed; I thought the Bible was quite clear there.)
But I did want to offer you the following exercise, designed to prepare you for, and eventually replace the activity of, debating with
Tony1.
1) Go to hardware store, buy cinderblock for garden.
2) Take cinderblock home, put it on the table.
3) Try to reason with it.
4) Repeat step 3 until you are compelled to smash yourself in the head with the cinderblock.
5) Smash yourself in the head with cinderblock.
He's just trying to feel smug while waiting for God. You could always take up a drug habit instead; it might actually get you more than debating with
Tony1. Of course, that's how we think he got to the nearly-incoherent stage he's at, so be careful with that route
thanx,
Tiassa