two<\/a> of letters received).<\/p>\n*****<\/p>\n
The following commentary was originally entitled \u201cWhy I Spend So Much Time Online, and In (Sometimes \u201cScrappy\u201d) Dialogue \/ My Apologetics Approach\u201d and was posted on Facebook (12-28-17):<\/p>\n
Social media is a mixed bag and always has been. It has to be used wisely. I think I am doing so, for the purpose of apologetics and sharing the faith (evangelism). That is worth using social media for. I\u2019m not wasting time doing worthless things online, but defending Holy Mother Church and the faith.<\/p>\n
This includes dialogues and debates with many people. Some get testy because that is how many people are. They take things personally. I do not. It may seem so at times, but that\u2019s just my passion for what I believe and zeal for seeking the truth of any given matter.<\/p>\n
Not everyone cares for my style or points of view. That\u2019s fine. No writer is foolish enough to believe that everyone will like to read their stuff.<\/p>\n
Dialogues help people (including myself, as you note) clarify things. That\u2019s why I love them. They\u2019ve been a great teaching tool since at least Plato\u2019s time. Dialogues can be of a very uneven quality, because not many people know how to do it, or understand it. Even if they do, they are often too sensitive or insecure to constructively engage in discussion with those who disagree. I\u2019ve been in over 1000 debates or dialogues by now. I know how to do it. It\u2019s a learned art. I\u2019m on social media because this is my primary means of communicating my writing, as a full-time apologist. This is what I do. I\u2019m called to do apologetics and evangelism, and this is the most efficient way today, to do that.<\/p>\n
Not all apologists debate. I do. We know that St. Paul (probably the greatest evangelist of all time) \u201cdisputed\u201d and \u201cargued\u201d daily with the Jews and the pagans, in synagogues and marketplaces and academies. The apologist must interact with other viewpoints. It can be done by never encountering people directly (only their books and articles), but also by direct encounter. Again, I do both. If that makes me appear \u201cscrappy\u201d then fine! So was Paul. So was Jesus. They were always interacting with hostile audiences. I\u2019m not an academic, who interacts mostly with other academics. I\u2019m a popular-level apologist. Gotta be among the people!<\/p>\n
Naming names is sometimes sadly necessary, so that one can warn people to avoid their errors. Again, Paul did this (Hymenaeus, Alexander the Coppersmith, Philetus).<\/p>\n
The Church fathers certainly often did so, in fighting all the heresies.<\/p>\n
If someone asks, \u201cwho is teaching this error you write about?\u201d then it is necessary to name them. I\u2019m not gonna sit there and say, \u201cI can\u2019t name any names.\u201d I\u2019m here to help people avoid theological error.<\/p>\n
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(originally 12-28-17 and 12-19-18 on Facebook)<\/p>\n
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