Clutch those pearls any harder, and you'll wind up garrotting yourself, Miss Desmond.
On second thought: carry on.
Mojito-
There is no reasoning with these people, therefore there is no reason to continue to converse with them.
For whatever reason, they believe they have ALL the correct answers and they distort the Word of G*d by picking and choosing the things they want, while ignoring the things that would be an inconvenience to them.
If you disagree- they deem you “not a Christian” as if it is up to their self-appointed jury of righteousness to judge what only G*d can judge.
If you disagree with their “logic” or choice of candidates- they deem you “not conservative” if they find anything that might resemble a flaw in THEIR eyes.
I have known people like this all of my life. They sit in church pews on Sunday morning wrapped in smugness and have no CLUE what awaits them when they face their G*d. They will surely be judged as harshly and severely as they judge.
They are far more interested in “PROVING” they are right, than they are in quietly and confidently presenting their interpretation of Gospel out of love and open-heartedness. They claim they “love” the sinner (at least sinner in their eyes) and hate the sin- yet they fail to see that in their misguided yet passionate diatribes- all that comes across is the “hate”.
They fail to see that the interpretation of the receiver who hears their message is more important than how it is delivered and when so many reasonable people point out the flaws in their delivery, the simply resort back to “he/she isn’t Christian”.
They convince themselves they are on a higher “plain” than the rest of us (spiritually and intellectually) and they have no clue how thankful we are that we are not them.
Some don’t show their overt bigotry- but their silence when they don’t speak out against it is the very loudest voice of all.
They cut and paste, pick and choose, scream and shout, or whisper in smugness a distorted and un-holy view of their Bible and justify it all while hiding behind the cross of their Christ.
Finally- when left with no argument or reasoning- after all the facades have been torn away- they resort to saying “that or that person is evil” as if G*d depends on them to label for Him- what is right and what is wrong.
They are vile, despicable, mean-spirited, lying, zealots and will smile with that self-righteous grin and say “I’ll pray for you”- never knowing that we do not want, need or desire the prayers of the empty and shallow. The heathens.
The Talmud teaches us that one in whom people take pleasure, G*d also takes pleasure; one in who people do not take pleasure, G*d does not take pleasure.
While these few support each other, they are but a few. The rest of us find pleasure in tolerance, open-mindedness, acceptance, peace and justice.
Celebrate the pleasure you bring to others and leave these fools to themselves.
Clutch those pearls any harder, and you'll wind up garrotting yourself, Miss Desmond.
On second thought: carry on.
Based on that anti-Christian screed, one would guess some Christians really let you down at some point in your life. Must be quite the burden to view Christians in that light, never taking pleasure in their company, yet, here you are.
Sheesh...talk about cognitive dissonance, doing exactly that which you accuse others of.
Sniping at FReepers.
Don’t spare the ammo next time Molly, let all of us “vile, despicable, mean-spirited, lying, zealots”, oh and “self-righteous” Christians really have a full broadside.
But if you’re gonna hang around FR, at least have the decency, if you have any, to name names and identify, then refute the “lying”. Mmmm k?
Nice piece of fiction there, CW. Did you write it by yourself or copy from a Faulkner novel?
If you're up to reading a great author, and a great book, on what true true Christianity should more resemble on this earth, I suggest C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. I honestly thing you'd enjoy it.
That anti-christian diatribe is full of shiite. Don’t you realize that the owner of this website is precisely one of those people you described? Why come here if it bothers you so?
There is no reasoning with these people, therefore there is no reason to continue to converse with them.
***And yet, you continue to converse on this thread. Your attempts at reason are rather shallow.