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To: Quix
Oh.. my apologies. Suggesting that somebody has a corncob up thir _ss on a FR thread truly was Christlike. I was certainly mistaken.

Didn't Christ also talk about humility?

Your "detractor" wasn't attacking Christianity. He was questioning the appropriateness of your thread here, rather than in the religious forum. You defended the thread as news rather than a religious discussion, which is a fair thing for you to do and is an appropriate debate. Ultimately, the mods get to decide.

However, you proceeded to make indefensible statements out of a belief that somebody was being hostile to religion. Perhaps your hypersensitivity was based on prior experience in this regard? Prior experience would of course mean that you have had these debates often. This of course suggests that you may disguise religion as "news" often. I can't say whether this is intentional or perhaps a subconscious act since your walk with Christ is certainly a major part of your life. The aggressive defensiveness and nasty language you used caused me to question where you are really coming from.

In defending your remarks, you point out that Christ called folks hostile to religion "vipers." This only demonstrates that you take yourself a little too seriously. Certainly, the two don't equate.

With your overbearing self-confidence and your inability to take any criticism under advisement, as evidenced twice on this one thread, you lost me. The guru / prophet to whom you refer is diminished in my eyes as well.

114 posted on 11/28/2003 9:55:59 PM PST by bluefish
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To: bluefish; WackyKat
I will admit my language got excessive and I apologize.

There is a mentality afoot that Believers are obligated to roll over, play dead, behave as wimps to the extreme etc.

And when the attitude on the other side gets excessive, it often seems that some sort of strong assertion in response is the only thing that will faze their antennae. I don't know that that is any excuse. I prefer to be Christ-like and loving even to my enemies.

And this whole issue of obvious hostility to any hint of relgiosity or God involved in public life or the discussions of the public square is part and parcel of playing victim to the same Constitution destroying forces that have been sliding us downt he yellow brick slide for decades. And I increasingly have a short fuse about kowtowing to such Commie idiocy.

If you think WackyKat does not fit that description as hostile to issues related to God being involved in discussions in the public square, then I'm at a loss for words.
123 posted on 11/28/2003 10:06:53 PM PST by Quix (WORK NOW to defeat one personal network friend, relative, associate's liberal idiocy now, warmly)
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