Formal Rejection of DA’s Debate Offer
Gene Bridges turned down the debate because Dave didn’t send him a notice by e-mail. He had to Google search to find the challenge on his own blog.
Saint & Sinner turned down the debate because he’s already doing an extended critique of Dave’s book, The Catholic Verses.
TurretinFan deferred the debate because Dave changed his mind one too many times on the terms, and couldn’t even decide if he (Dave) was going to debate as a Roman Catholic or not.
Even though I am announcing that I’m turning the debate down today, it seems that DA had made the announcement for me Thursday-ish. Either Dave now possesses exhaustive divine foreknowledge, or he jumped to an unwarranted conclusion. I’m guessing the latter.
Even though I created a thread expressly for the DA debate challenge, Dave continued to post notes about it in my blog entry on the celebration of atheist women. He continued to accuse me of saying that Catholics aren’t Christians, which is something that I have never asserted.
I, like Gene, am a little miffed that DA didn’t contact me by e-mail, when my address is the easiest of the whole group to locate: top left corner of my blog. So, along with everyone else, I am rejecting Dave’s Debate Challenge. Even though Dave already did that a few days back for me.
It’s worth pointing out that technically I have simply deferred the debate, rather than turning Dave down.
Noted. I changed it in the text. I apologize for the misrepresentation. We have enough of that going on from the other side!