tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post5762774039691029722..comments2023-08-28T19:10:45.798-04:00Comments on Common Sense Catholicism: On Divisive Terms, Dialogue, and Reading "The Signs of the Times"... Guest Editorial by I. Shawn McElhinneyKevin Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-46970555809861372732013-08-13T12:50:45.905-04:002013-08-13T12:50:45.905-04:00[I agree this far. I don't agree with other it...[I agree this far. I don't agree with other items in the criticisms that contend that "radtrad" was always pejorative only or an insult by its very nature.]<br /><br />The term was not intended as an endearment and was in fact intended as an insult. (Particularly by Pete Vere who made no bones about this in his own usages of it. My use was more of an offhand differentiating tool of Shawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17022694414059344372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-64195163224184834962013-08-07T20:25:30.831-04:002013-08-07T20:25:30.831-04:00No, it wasn't. I wasn't lying when I said...No, it wasn't. I wasn't lying when I said I'd be strict about moderating. I've allowed one (i'm not counting the "thanks" as a post) and I've rejected the rest.<br /><br />So ponder why I let one go through (even when it wasn't in full agreement), and I rejected the rest (even when one was complimentary.) Or.... just ask. :)Kevin Tierneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09772355448244959559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-76686113914286610282013-08-07T20:22:25.968-04:002013-08-07T20:22:25.968-04:00. [maybe this one will be allowed]. [maybe this one will be allowed]Dave Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07771661758539438173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-70026798259986775312013-08-07T17:37:19.860-04:002013-08-07T17:37:19.860-04:00Thanks.Thanks.Dave Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07771661758539438173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-72761309669940648342013-08-07T17:27:24.702-04:002013-08-07T17:27:24.702-04:00Dave,
I applaud your decision to stop using the t...Dave,<br /><br />I applaud your decision to stop using the term. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08867188454105241834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-72462614461360062942013-08-07T14:03:16.975-04:002013-08-07T14:03:16.975-04:00"too many of those who have recourse to those..."too many of those who have recourse to those expressions misuse and misapply them which causes no small amount of unnecessary angst by those unfairly marked by such expressions"<br /><br />". . . shun expressions that are unnecessarily divisive."<br /><br />These two things I wholeheartedly agree with, and it is 95% of the reason why I decided to ditch "radtrad." Dave Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07771661758539438173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-9119284805033727972013-08-07T08:53:32.089-04:002013-08-07T08:53:32.089-04:00[Thank you, Shawn and Kevin, for making explicit t...[Thank you, Shawn and Kevin, for making explicit the concerns about the use of pejorative terms which I have expressed, albeit inarticulately.]<br /><br />You are welcome Terrye!<br /><br />Shawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17022694414059344372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-964979022938948880.post-63814136750630545302013-08-06T20:57:36.056-04:002013-08-06T20:57:36.056-04:00Thank you, Shawn and Kevin, for making explicit th...Thank you, Shawn and Kevin, for making explicit the concerns about the use of pejorative terms which I have expressed, albeit inarticulately. After I heard about the use of "rad-trad" on the Catholic Answers radio program, I was glad to hear from my old boss, Karl Keating, that he would never use such a term himself. I later read that even my principal discutant, Dave Armstrong, had Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312483421791562748noreply@blogger.com