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To: pay dirt; FastCoyote
“I think everyone should always strive to be as “nice” as possible.” [pd]

I prefer to be truthful rather than nice myself.[FC]

"Nice." (Where's that word found in the Bible again?) I think the closest you can come is "kindness." If we look at Jesus, He was kindest to repentant tax-payers and prostitutes, & he was harshest on legalistic religious folks who sought to pull themselves up spiritually by their own bootstraps...which happens to be the exact word (bootstraps) used by an LDS "prophet" back in the 80s (Kimball).

If we look at Jesus, He called the legalists "brood of vipers" (Matt 3) and "whitewashed sepulchres" (tombstones)--filthy & dead on the inside & basically "nice" & "white & delightsome" on the outside...He also overturned money tables, etc...

So the question I have: Why are folks trying to be nicer than Jesus?

734 posted on 12/13/2007 6:07:57 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian

Psssst.... Pay Dirt agreed with you in your dislike of Mitt; why are you picking on him/her?

Gee, now you even attack your own.


749 posted on 12/13/2007 7:16:11 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Ave Maria Gratia Plena)
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