Apparently, your mastery of the English language is incomplete. You claim you "read every word," yet you don't understand that when I post blog essays from The Rude Pundit, those are the words/thoughts of someone else, not mine. (I mostly post them approvingly, to be sure, but his style is far from my own. And you can find not a single instance of my saying or implying, much less "espousing," that "rudeness is a philosophy.")

And you're apparently unable to grasp that when I comment on "Steppenwolf," I'm commenting on you and your posts, not on Hermann Hesse. And when I cite "hypocrisy," and explained my use of it, I never claimed that I was using the only or "definitive" meaning; it's clear from context that I'm intending a common and well understood meaning of the term (one of only a few offered, for example, by the online version of Merriam-Webster--see link).

And you claim, "It's obvious that you want to drive me off the forum," when I've never tried to do any such thing. So, "obvious" is another English word you apparently have trouble understanding.

And you throw around the Anglo-Saxon word "lie" without any apparent grasp of the usual meaning of that word: I accused you--and do still--of not reading and comprehending what others (including me) have written. Insisting that you have "read every word," even if that is true, does not render my criticism a "lie" or even necessarily mistaken. On the other hand, you declare that I have said my style is rudeness when I've never said any such thing. If you can comprehend English, your statement is therefore a lie--more likely, however, it's just ignorant.

I will agree with one thing you've written: you are indeed a most unworthy "sinner"--by which I mean not that you are, as Christian teaching holds, human (universally "unworthy" in God's eyes) but instead that you do not represent Christianity well to the world. I did not realize, until today, that you're a Christian at all, but now that I do, my respect for the religion and its followers has slipped a bit.

I think you're too angry to have thoughtful exchanges. C'est la vie (I know--not English).

Calm down and offer real criticism, based on reading and understanding (not necessarily agreeing with) what I've written--or please comment on others' posts.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocri...

Definition of HYPOCRITE

a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion; a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings; a person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs about what is right but who behaves in a way that disagrees with those ....

×