A RTOC Brief Account of the Event

[Suaidan]

Fr Joseph, I think you may be overreacting a little. I know Leonidas to be normally a very polite person, so if he addressed you by the wrong title I'm sure it's an innocent mistake. Also, I'm not sure what was inflammatory about the passage you quoted, where you said he was using inflammatory language. As for wishing to continue the discussion in private, I think he means that this whole discussion in the various threads has been generally inflammatory and eristic, with people on both sides more interested in scoring points than in trying to learn about or resolve the issue, and that he regretted taking part publicly, although at the same time he felt the need to correct what he saw to be misunderstandings. I think you certainly have a point that these things should be discussed in public, but I agree with Leonidas that it needs to be done in the right way, in a spirit of peace.

Since this is more of a side discussion about people than the topic at hand, I will respond in private.

[jgress]

Fr Joseph, I think you may be overreacting a little. I know Leonidas to be normally a very polite person, so if he addressed you by the wrong title I'm sure it's an innocent mistake. Also, I'm not sure what was inflammatory about the passage you quoted, where you said he was using inflammatory language. As for wishing to continue the discussion in private, I think he means that this whole discussion in the various threads has been generally inflammatory and eristic, with people on both sides more interested in scoring points than in trying to learn about or resolve the issue, and that he regretted taking part publicly, although at the same time he felt the need to correct what he saw to be misunderstandings. I think you certainly have a point that these things should be discussed in public, but I agree with Leonidas that it needs to be done in the right way, in a spirit of peace.

Since this is more of a side discussion about people than the topic at hand, I will respond in private.

The inflammatory language turns out to have been either edited out by Leonidas, or Fr J simply misremembered, so I removed that part of Dcn Joseph's post that referred to it.

[leonidas]

Fr Joseph, I think you may be overreacting a little. I know Leonidas to be normally a very polite person, so if he addressed you by the wrong title I'm sure it's an innocent mistake. Also, I'm not sure what was inflammatory about the passage you quoted, where you said he was using inflammatory language. As for wishing to continue the discussion in private, I think he means that this whole discussion in the various threads has been generally inflammatory and eristic, with people on both sides more interested in scoring points than in trying to learn about or resolve the issue, and that he regretted taking part publicly, although at the same time he felt the need to correct what he saw to be misunderstandings. I think you certainly have a point that these things should be discussed in public, but I agree with Leonidas that it needs to be done in the right way, in a spirit of peace.

Thank you Jonathan. You expressed my thoughts on the matter accurately.

I also apologize to Fr. Dn. Joseph Suaiden for misspelling his name and inadvertently omitting his title.

Leonidas