Denying the obvious on a Catholic Facebook Page

Is under discussion at Mark Shea’s Facebook page.  I dared to point out that the disproportionate number of positive, celebratory posts centered around giving high fives and kudos to Bernie Sanders was problematic, and he might want to look again at just what Sanders represents.  Sanders is one of the most tirelessly zealous advocates for expanding abortion rights and culture of death issues in government. 

What follows could only be described as the unraveling of the last shreds of credibility of a once great Catholic apologist.  I know it was getting bad in later years.  But I can’t imagine going to Jack Chick’s website to espouse Catholicism and getting worse than this.  It was just – childish. He continued leveling the same false accusation over and over and over again, saying I was accusing him of supporting abortion.  Try as I might to be civil, to be polite, to be direct, it didn’t matter.  It was false accusation and slander, contempt and derision, mocking and insulting.  And this is one of the stars of modern Catholic apologetics.  I guess you can’t argue with success.  But I have done my arguing, and won’t be going back.  Bushy tail this time. 

BTW, one of Mark’s main reasons for abandoning conservatism and traditional values and beliefs was, according to him, the constant false accusations made against him by conservatives; accusations that he was pro-choice, or pro-gay rights, or a socialist, or whatnot.  Given that I didn’t, in fact that I had no intention of it, and was simply trying to tell him to back off the Sanders-love, and he insisted on saying that I was ‘accusing him’, I wonder how accurate his take on those other accusations actually was.