No - it's not an "ad hominem". Your arguments ARE asinine and based on opinion and very little fact.
This is both unsupported assertion and
ad hominem which is unworthy of you.
That's called an observation - not an ad hominem . . .
This is the rationalization of the sin of malice, the abuse of another.
here is not a SINGLE Catholic teaching that "requires" me to know about every lie known to man. If I never heard about these "prophecies" - then how could I condemn them?? As I stated before - you have a woefully-ignorant understanding of Catholic teaching.
This is more rationalization of sin. For thousands of posts, here on Christianity Board, you've chiding others for an ignorance of Catholic teaching and other matters, for failing to do the needed 'do diligence' to properly learn and understand a subject. Yet you've failed to do the proper 'do diligence' in respect to President Trump and the controversies that have surrounded him, in this case the Trump Prophecies. This negligent concern for the truth does point, in many instances to your indifference towards it, which is sinful. I notice that you've only superficially attempted to answer my arguments.
What I've said still holds. You're now aware of
Silentium consensu importat, that silence implies consent. Within your church, the Nine Ways to be an accessory to Sin, again, are: By counsel, By command, By consent, By provocation, By praise or flattery, By concealment, By partaking, By silence, and By the defense of the evil done. Your being an accessory to the sin, involving the Trump prophecies, and anti-christ, is your silence in respect to them. You had needed to speak out. That was an imperative responsibility. You didn't do so. You became an accessory to sin.
Why are you so abusive with people you disagree with? Why all the name calling? Why is it that you're always posting with such malice?
What had been a terrible surprise to you is that you've attacked a Protestant who's been doing 'do diligence' in Catholic spiritual theology. As a Charismatic, I've discovered that I've had to learn about the charisms in the past centuries. I had to learn about Catholic teaching. Now, in the deepest of ironies, I have to address your stunning ignorance of the Catholic faith. Are you teachable? Can you learn from others?
In Catholic teaching there is the discernment of Spirits, how to tell if one is being influenced, or possessed by the divine or by the diabolical spirit. What do you think on these matters?
The 16 signs of the divine Spirit are: Truth, Gravity, Enlightenment, Docility, Discretion, Humility, Peace, Confidence in God, Flexibility of Will, Purity of Intention, Patience in suffering, Self-abnegation (taking up one's cross), Simplicity, Liberty of spirit, Desire to imitate Christ, and Disinterested love.
Are people on Christianity Board seeing this coming from you?
The 18 signs of the diabolical spirit are: Spirit of falsity, Morbid curiosity, Confusion, Obstinacy, Constant indiscretion, Spirit of pride and vanity, Restlessness and unnecessary anxiety, False humility, Despair, Presumption, Disobedience, Selfish motives, Impatience, Rebellion of the passions (violent inclinations to evil), Hypocrisy, Attachment to created things, Neglect of the imitation of Christ, and feigned charity.
Are people on Christianity Board seeing this coming from you?
Then there are the outward signs of the fruits of the Holy Spirit and the great sins against the Holy Spirit.
The 12 fruits of the Holy Spirit are: Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience, Longanimity, Goodness, Benignity, Mildness, Fidelity, Modesty, Continency, and Chastity.
Are people on Christianity Board seeing this coming from you?
The 6 great sins against the Holy Spirit are: Presumption, Despair of God's mercy, Resisting the known truth, Envy of another's spiritual good, Obstinacy in sin, and Final impenitence.
Are people on Christianity Board seeing this coming from you?
I think that you may not like how other people think of you. I suspect that you may not care. I don't have to insult you. I think that what you've shown us is sufficient for us to draw the conclusions.
I'm sure that Catholics have sent you a PM saying you should see a priest and do confession, saying you need deep spiritual counseling. I suspect that you're actually very hostile to the Catholic church.
This is complete nonsense as you are assigning responsibility to the President to know every lie or tall tale told about him.
Nobody is responsible for the things people day ABOUT them.
THIS is a prime example of why I told you that your arguments ar immature and childish . . .
This cannot possibly be correct because if the ministers, who were in the Oval Office, laid hands upon Trump and prayed with Trump, they would have explained the meaning of the "laying on of hands", and the belief in their "anointing" of him in his leadership. Trump would have to have heard about the prophecies about him, eventually, from his syncopants. That's simply human nature.
Again, I say that when Trump was in the early months of his Presidency, he should have came out and condemned these prophecies, saying that he was, in no way, "anointed" by God. He failed to do so. This meant, in effect, that Trump consented to them, hoping that gullible people would fall for them and support him as a leader with a religious sanction. Technically, this made him an anti-christ, one of the many fetid anti-christs that have come down through the centuries who've claimed divine sanctions to rule and to compel obedience. One thing that we do know about Trump is his concerns for wealth, power and obedience.
You cannot plead the case of Trump's ignorance.
The last
ad hominem is unworthy of you.
Again - NOT an ad hominem - but an observation.
This is the rationalization of the sin of malice, the abuse of another.
I don't think you even know what an "ad hominem" is - although it seems to be your favorite term . . .
This is feigned speculation as a part of the rationalization of the sin of malice, the abuse of another.
Regardless of the South's collective understanding of Slavery as a perpetual institution - the War was not fought about slavery alone.
But I digress, because this entire tangential argument had absolutely NOTHING to do with the original debate - other than to show you that the President is NOT a monarch who simply declares and decrees things that every state must obey.
Again you're incorrect. The American Presidency has much more power than that of the Confederate Presidency. In times of national emergency, federal authority eventually must prevail over state authority depending on the matter.
I think that you have an exaggerated understanding of State's Rights in the American system as opposed to the Confederate system.
YOU seem to think that he can simply "order" every stat to run their Covid programs in lock step with the Federal government - and this is NOT the case.
As I've said before, Trump failed to use the discretionary powers that he already possesses to deal with national pandemic emergencies and biological attacks. Trump can defend the national interest in his authority as Commander-In-Chief.
State institutions involving medicine, and hospitals, can be directly placed under federal authority in the event of a pandemic or biological attack from another country for the purposes of resolving the pandemic or the attack.
Another asinine argument based on your personal disdain for the man - and ZERO fact or reason.
By your idiotic logic - every sports hero, every historical figure or intellectual giant, every musician or artist or anybody else who is admired for excelling at what they do is an "antichrist".
This
ad hominem is unworthy of you.
And so this is your acknowledgement that veneration is a synonym of worship? I guess so.
I see that you don't like your idol, Donald Trump, being attacked.
You needn't worry, though.
Nobody is going to put YOU in that category for writing this kind of drivel . . .
Your nostrils must have been flared in anger when you posted that.
This
ad hominem is unworthy of you.