<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Mary Pezzulo over at Steel Magnificat has written an excellent piece about the problem with name-calling, contentiousness, and point-scoring in the name of “apologetics.” I agree completely with what she says,<wm> and also that we have the power to correct our own. We don't need anyone's blessing to point out something wrong or good, we should try to be the kind we wish for in our own. However, in some of the criticisms, I found some of the reasoning on this point to be weak. She argues that if our words have any significance, we should try to be the kind we wish our critics were, and that if we would pointlessly criticize, we are saying our words are</wm> good and just like theirs.
But, in some of the responses and on this subject, I found