@ethanBoll@gavinortlund Fact that Gavin is citing scholarship on the matter, while you cite an anonymous friend who converted, shows the massive disparity between the two position.
@JoshuaTCharles@ethanBoll@gavinortlund Again, Gavin is citing a multitude of scholarship here. The only logical element you’re bringing is all scholarship who disagrees with you is intentionally dishonest, which is a very odd hill to die on. No one is claiming you have to agree with the scholarship, but the simple
@ethanBoll@gavinortlund I have no concerns over wanting greater clarify from Gavin on particular points, but it’s very telling that Joshua’s approach involved ignoring 99% of Gavin’s video
@JoshuaTCharles@gavinortlund Your rebuttal focuses on one arbitrary framing of a singular point Gavin made across a 30 minute video, while then using that singular point to ignore the vast majority of critiques Gavin offered, to then shift the discussion from an honest and genuine interaction to one based
@gavinortlund Being disingenuous in your own critiques of Protestantism. A little bit of humility could take you a long way.
People far smarter than you and I have made strong arguments on both sides of the fence here.
@JoshuaTCharles@gavinortlund The argument of being insane for Jesus is rather useless in a vacuum, most people won’t deny Gavin nor you are pushing people to chase after Jesus. You’re just choosing to paint Gavin in as negative or a light as you can, on the basis of your friend said something, while often
@DeeveePb815@WalmartThomist Gavin is not any more insincere in his approach to Roman Catholicism than most Catholics are in their criticisms of Protestantism.
@TheJohnnyDee @TallDPD@Dug_Out_Bat@racjac24 If Indiana is undefeated, they would likely have two top 5 wins with Oregon and Ohio State.
If Ohio State is undefeated you’re looking at 3-4 ranked wins between Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Michigan, and Washington.
"said no sports analyst ever" yeah man all those same sports analysts im sure perfectly predicted the quality of Indiana from the beginning when they picked us 17/18 in the Big Ten last year
@celticcocks @SpartanBob01@itsAntWright I don’t know how to make this more clear, but if you think number of fans going up = automatically louder than a smaller number of fans without factoring in stadium design you might be genuinely retarded.
Like legitimately, that SEC education really showing itself lmao