he is exxpressing an opinion....you’re way too thin skinned.....you are wrong, but thin skinned about it!!
You cannot separate the expression ("the opinion") from the labels ("heretics" & "false teachers").
It's like when the Dixie Checks played a concert overseas (I believe it was 2003) & took the opportunity to criticize our President on foreign soil. They, too, were simply "expressing an opinion"...and many conservatives elected, in response, to do one or more of the following...
...not purchase future Dixie Chicks' CDs
...not attend their concerts
...while some even dumped what they already owned produced by them...
Now I suppose you could have come along, wagged your finger @ that those folks who responded in that way, claiming, "you're way too thin skinned." But the reality is that words & actions can have economic consequences. And if consumers don't want their $ going to the Dixie Chicks, that was their economic free will & discretion, right?
Likewise, the author of this article should bear some consequences for dissing all Protestants as "heretics" & "false teachers." If this man's "advisory board" wants to stand by him, fine, that's their "free expression." But "free expression" is not a one-way street.
For years I've been wanting to buy another specific J. Budziszewski book. He's a great author. I have three Peter Kreeft books. A fine author. I will no longer recommend either; and will never cite them. Why? Because they have shown poor discernment. They want to peddle their books & products to us Protestant readers -- all the while their friends & formal associates attack us as "heretics" & "false teachers." I'm sorry, but there's a bit of a "disconnect" there.
I call upon all Protestant FReepers reading this thread to do the same. For all I know, some of the "advisory board" may also provide $ funding to the CERC Web site. If CERC has declared all Protestants as their enemies, we don't need to be funding those who posturing themselves this way, or those who are "advising" them to do this.