[Cronos]

How about this, What if we let people be who they are? Quix has fruits, I have fruits, You have fruits. A tree is known by it's fruits.

Hey, I got no problem with that -- if people stop accusing me of having white hankies or calling me names, I got no problem. As Quix may attest, on a thread when he wants to share his faith or even disagree with me civilly, I have no problem at all with agreeing to disagree or even accepting a point.

[Quix]

BTW, I tried to find the long post of yours that I’d wanted to reply more substantively to—looked quite a while and never found it. Sorry.

In terms of the white-hanky stuff . . . that ilk of thing is MORE THAN WARRANTED given the stimuli the RC’s et al throw at proddys routinely around here.

It is the best quick—short-hand way of communicating what I see as very serious Scriptural truths about Christianity and what NOT to give in to.

Folks can take it personally, or not.
Folks can ignore it, or not.
Folks can laugh it off, or not.
Folks can respond in kind, or not.
Folks can consider it absurd, or not.
Folks can be outraged and lose sleep over it, or not.
Folks can learn from the metaphor, or not.

It’s not likely that the metaphor will cease as long as I am able to write.