# Polycarp’s a fucking liar. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 15, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polycarp-s-a-fucking-liar/219053 "2003-12-15T03:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![badchad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b77776/32.png) [@badchad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badchad)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polycarp-s-a-fucking-liar/219053/41 "2003-12-15T05:20:36Z")
Monstro: > [@](#): > > What do you want Poly to do? I want him to either address my questions point in a point-by-point manner as he said he would in my thread about the internal inconsistencies of his belief system or just admit where he can’t answer them. I’d also like him to stop his double talk, which pretty much led to said inconsistencies. > [@](#): > > Put on sackcloth and bow down before you? That’s an option, but I’d prefer the former.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polycarp-s-a-fucking-liar/219053/42 "2003-12-15T05:20:58Z")
The man has 349 posts, and the _only_ thing one associates with him is pitting **Polycarp**. Couldn’t that be construed as posting solely to complain about another poster? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polycarp-s-a-fucking-liar/219053/43 "2003-12-15T05:21:27Z")
Since **badchad** has not actually followed **Polycarp** in any of the dozens of previous threads on the subject of the mission and resurrection of Jesus, he _might_ have been forgiven for failing to notice that **Poly** is a bit heterodox (compared to traditional Christian expression) on a few related issues. (Hint for those interested: search **GD** (and maybe some other Fora) for “spong” with username “polycarp.”) On the other hand, having demonstrated that he really just does not understand **Poly** on any level, our corrupted ballot poster finds he can only froth at the mouth and hurl imprecations at his betters. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polycarp-s-a-fucking-liar/219053/44 "2003-12-15T05:23:08Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ll let you look up the meaning of the word “soteriologically” yourself. Do _you_ know what it means? i don’t really see a contradiction there. **Poly** said the kid could be a force for social change, even a prophet, but that he was _not_ making a case for the kid as a mystical “saviour.” I also think your misreading his use of capital H’s. In the preamble to the first post, Poly was using the capital H in refernce to God and claiming that “He” (as in _God_) would “make Himself known.” When it came time to describe the kid, Poly switched to lower case h’s. So basically, Poly was saying that “He” would make Himself known through “him.” If you parse the whole statement, you’ll find that this reading works. I also don’t see that Poly made any explicit claim that this kid was Jesus. That was read into it by everybody else. Poly clarified. He was talking about a prophet, a vehicle of God, not a literal second coming of Christ. ou can argue with the plausibility or the sanity of these speculations all you want but I don’t see that he’s a liar. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polycarp-s-a-fucking-liar/219053/45 "2003-12-15T05:24:17Z")
Anyone else creeped out by this guy yet? Mods? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polycarp-s-a-fucking-liar/219053/46 "2003-12-15T05:25:51Z")
**badchad,** find another hobby. One that is totally unrelated to **Polycarp**. Lynn For the Straight Dope [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polycarp-s-a-fucking-liar/219053.md?page=2)