He LIED. He passed off the work of others as his own. This has nothing to do with whatever "ism" you hold to. Not only did he lie, but he is doubling and tripling down on his lie. He is incalcitrant.
A forum like this is an extremely
informal setting. Did he "plagiarize"? Well, strictly defined perhaps, but frankly there is an over-reaction to an extreme here IMO. People are acting like he failed to cite a source in some
published work that he is selling for money or used an un-cited source in a
Master's thesis. This reaction is like someone telling a fib in a debate is as though he purjured himself in a court of law or something.
Frankly, I think this over-reaction is quite disingenuous. I think if some of those who are piling on about it were to search their hearts in honesty.........they would realize that.
Blasphemy occurs in humor when the person of God is held in low regard. He is guilty of that too.
Again........he doesn't
HOLD GOD'S person in LOW REGARD. You clearly didn't read nor understand my post. He was pointing out that (at least in his opinion) Calvinism logically forces the VERY conclusion you are calling "blasphemy".
It will do no good I fear but pay close attention to this from the link I put to you:
Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to absurdity"), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin: argument to absurdity), is a common form of argument which seeks to demonstrate that a statement is true by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its denial,[1] or in turn to demonstrate that a statement is false by showing that a false, untenable, or absurd result follows from its acceptance.
In other words........he was tacitly DENYING and DECRYING the very thing you are calling "BLASPHEMY". He was proposing that a Calvinist view-point makes a
CALVINIST an inadvertent "blasphemer".
That you are defending him says as much about you as it does of the dear faux Dr.
Frankly.......I have thought more highly of you previously than this inane statement. This isn't meaningful, you are just trying to disparage ME now because I'm not following along with your collective
argumentum ad hominem. Any reasonable person can see that.
The over-reaction about his "plagiarism" is little more than ad hominem, and then further piling on to me because I am not playing along is merely a smearing ad hominem as well. I haven't personally disparaged
your character Herald. (I intentionally divorced your name from my other statements, and have ONLY generalized them not using anyone's name in particular) and even
that makes you want to get personal with
me in your quest against Dr. J.
Your making this a personal slander on ME is precisely the "bullying" that Dr. J. was implying that some people have been involved in.