Saturday, March 01, 2008

Bombastic!

I just read a post on another blog where a raging argument is taking place.  One of those commenting made this statement, which I thought was funny:

It is irresponsible as an historian, theologian, and Christian to use sophistry. And then to manipulate people under false pretenses with bombastic language.

This statement is even funnier in context since he has previously made an argument that if we read "MAL and HL" we will clearly see...  well, we'll clearly see something anyway.  At the end of this first post he says this:

(Yes, I study Cuneiform at UPenn and am not speaking ignorantly about this literature. I’ve read it.)

So he is apparently one of the most pretentious and bombastic folks in the entire comment chain and he chides others for these traits.  I was this way when I was in college, too.