I’ve had an interlocuter almost since the inception of my blog here, he first arrived on the seen as Puritan — I told him to stop commenting, because of his vitriol, so he came back as “C.” He wouldn’t leave the blog alone, which is why I finally switched over to ‘wordpress’ from ‘blogger’ — because ‘wordpress’ has black-listing or blocking functionality. I let “C” comment here for a bit, but he continued his same uninformed, hateful, explosive spittings. So I blocked him, by his IP, apparently he received a new IP or he is using someone else’s IP (true spam) — the point, he got through my phalanx, he said:
Give it up. You’re a wet little boy. Petulant when confronted. Prickly as a little fag. You don’t get understanding of biblical doctrine from seminaries or from books. You get it from the Bible and from discernment that can only come from the Holy Spirit. You’re a typical Arminian who hates God and demands God act as you see fit. You demand God act in a way you determine is good and just. You’re a wet boy. With a blog. Grow up.
All I can take away from this, is that “C” doesn’t like little boys, thinks my annoyance of him is strange, thinks homosexuals are prickly, is an irrationalist, is as pietistic as Schleiermacher (but not as smart), thinks Arminians aren’t proximate to Calvinists, thinks that good and just come before God, doesn’t like boys who swim and then blog, and thinks that *Grow* is a verb — but in my case it’s a noun.
Calvin had Westphal, I have “C” (of course recognizing the qualitative asymmetry embedded in that parallel). Oh “C,” you’re still banned . . . I guess if you can find another IP, you’ll make it through once more . . . if anyone lives in the Sacremento area, and know a guy who goes by “C” or “Puritan” and his email address is c@att.net or uses the IP addresses: 75.30.69.89 or 75.57.248.200 and you like TFT or disagree with Federal Theology, watch out, he might come at you in the “Christian” ways he has at me . . .
October 18, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I know what you mean. There’s this guy who’s posted like 5 comments on my blog today. Any advice on what I should do?
😉
October 18, 2009 at 4:11 pm
That’s different, I think that guy is just trying to help forward what you’re forwarding 😉 .
Of course you could always ban him 🙂 .
October 19, 2009 at 11:22 am
Glen,
Sounds like a troll to me… 😉
Bobby,
This ‘Puritan’ fellow may just be a loose-canon Calvinist or someone engaging in sockpuppetry…I’ve run into a few these ‘ardent’ fellows myself…. 😉
October 19, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Indeed, Sam.
October 18, 2009 at 6:57 pm
just “Priceless” 🙂
October 18, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Yeah,
I received another response from c, which went directly to my spam queue, he seems to think I’m slandering him with this post . . . huh.
I’ve really gotten under his skin, I don’t know why he can’t just let it go — if he’s right, he’s right — who cares what little old me has to say.
October 24, 2009 at 9:52 am
this is a disease that is all over the christian blogosphere, what a pity…
October 24, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Yes, this is true, Rose.
October 25, 2009 at 5:15 pm
he seems to think I’m slandering him with this post . . . huh.
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slander: a false statement uttered maliciously that damages a person’s reputation.
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Hm. Well, I guess it’s slander if he didn’t actually say what you said he wrote.
I think I recall reading several comments from this person on your other site, and think I understand the grounds for the banning. It is a shame that this venomous e-mailing is the end result.
Perhaps you might want to consider…although it appears you are innocent of slander, it is possible this type of post could lead to gossip–even if you are not personally involved in it and only wrote to warn others who might end up with undesired commentary.
October 25, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Hi Heather,
Here’s “C'” original comment: https://theevangelicalcalvinist.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/federal-theology-according-to-tf-torrance/#comment-554
He said it. This wasn’t an emailing, he made it through my spam-guard covertly (used a differ IP).
All I’m doing with this post is exposing what this guy has said for all to see (i.e. not leave it hidden in a comment meta somewhere). I don’t see how this could lead to gossip, nobody really knows who “C” is . . . he’s anonymous (for the most part). Also I’m trying to lighten up some of his serious, vitriolic charges; that’s all 😉 .
October 25, 2009 at 7:32 pm
“He said it. This wasn’t an emailing, he made it through my spam-guard covertly (used a differ IP).”
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Oops, I wasn’t questioning your motives or whether the guy actually said it. You provided the link in your main post–I believe you!
The anonymous nature of the public attack is hardly admirable, for sure.
I should probably mention that I’ve visited on a particular women’s blog on which the author (very lovely Christian lady) posted something similar to what you have above–and the following discussion got nasty pretty quick. Maybe it was because the blog is super high-volume. Or specifically because it was women involved. For some reason, we seem to need to guard against that more strongly than do men. That was in the back of my mind when I commented.
Anyway. It’s your page to manage as you see fit… I’m just visiting 🙂
October 25, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I know that woman, I think 🙂 .
Yes, she has high comment volume 😉 . . . this blog actually has high volume (relatively) — it’s primarily made up of lurkers though 🙂 . See my post on Lurkers.
I know, I need to be careful on this kind of stuff; sometimes I just need not respond, but this is hard relative to my personality 🙂 .
Thanks, Heather!