Naw. Perhaps it's not so much a challenge or an insult as a standard ad-hominum tactic that some progressive types use to avoid having to debate on substantive points. It's just a crude way of misdirecting attention, of "changing the subject." At the same time, this writer is evidently holding himself out as "a better Christian" than you are wagglebee; for he faults you for your lack of Christlike behavior, and gives you a detailed list of what that requires. Then he puts up a strawman argument, suggesting that you are looking to attract "a following." What on earth is going on here? Where is the caritas?
You pinged me wagglebee, but I know I'm not on your "official" ping list. You pinged me because you thought I might be interested in this discussion. And you were right: I am.
Well said, bb.
Thank you both for your kind responses.
The irony in those situations (and they happen regularly) is that in their zeal to label and condemn others as being *unChrist-like* and *unloving*, those who hold themselves out as "a better Christian" than others & faults others for their lack of Christlike behavior, exhibit the EXACT behavior they are accusing others of.
If they think people are not going to see that, they must be stupider than they think everyone else is.