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This is something of a pattern with Philo. Faced with an argument he probably won't be able to defeat, he retreats into a mist of etymological and literary analysis, which means he doesn't have to answer a straightforward question.
No, it's called being moderately educated with a B.A. in Philosophy and with an M.A. in Education and Social Science. And by this qualification, I KNOW that I don't have to play your philosophical game here. As an Existentialist myself, I'll refuse it since I know that your consistent insistency is a rhetorical smoke-screen and I have the resources by which to sit down with anyone on this website and study the various (many) aspects that go into our Hermeneutics and how politics play into our epistemological, ontological and axiological preferences.
As a Christian who accepts the position of Philosophical Hermeneutics, I know that your seemingly simple act of asking is toned and tempered with certain ideological commitments. Other Christians here should know that the apologetics process isn't one involving the notion of "the simple inquirer." Not all acts of questioning about the Chrisitan faith or about Christian theology come at us through some kind of neutral medium of human intention. No, especially where antagonists to Christianity are concrened, this goes way beyond merely discerning if a person is Democrat or Republican...
So, the rules of this forum should reflect these fuller aspects of social and human perceptual Reality.
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