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To: wideawake

"(1) You prefer juvenile mockery to adult discussion."

No I prefer rational thought and understanding, equating disagreement and or dislike of a political figure with somehow not being Christian is closed minded and irrational.

"(2) You are unable to understand the difference between "fellowship" and "worship"

See above. Just because you happen to agree with GWB (as I do on a number of issues) does not mean that I need to attack someones faith. A does not follow B in this case.

(3) You are a bigot who looks down on Bible Christians as somehow backward.

Oh O.K. LOL I'm not the one claiming that anyone who disagrees with GWB is not a christian. Pot meet kettle.



69 posted on 06/20/2006 11:18:09 AM PDT by JNL
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To: JNL
No I prefer rational thought and understanding, equating disagreement and or dislike of a political figure with somehow not being Christian is closed minded and irrational.

If you had actually preferred rational thought and understanding you would have made a reasoned defense of your position.

You did not.

You responded by prooftexting Scripture and then by making a lame joke.

These facvts remain:

(1) No one, not the author of the thread, not Ann Coulter, not any poster, ever suggested that the President of the United States was a god or God.

That was a lie you concocted entirely on your own and which you could not and cannot back up with a shred of evidence or argument.

(2) The term "disagreement" was never an object of discussion. The original term under discussion was specifically "Bush-hater", not "person who disagrees with the President."

This bait-and-switch technique you are employing is one that is used to evade reasoned argument, not partake in it.

(3) Feelings of hatred for a fellow Christian are incompatible with Christianity.

It is specifically contrary to Jesus' direct catechesis of his disciples.

See above. Just because you happen to agree with GWB (as I do on a number of issues) does not mean that I need to attack someones faith.

Again, someone who simultaneously claims to be a Christian and to hate their fellow Christian, President Bush, has no faith to attack. No one can legitimately claim to be a Christian believer and then try to justify or excuse hatred of a fellow Christian.

Oh O.K. LOL I'm not the one claiming that anyone who disagrees with GWB is not a christian. Pot meet kettle.

Your bigotry is palpable through your condescending use of what you perceive to be a Southern dialect and your equation of maintaining Christian fellowship with the President as worship of the President.

Mocking the way a cultural group speaks and deliberately misrepresenting their notion of fellowship as idolatry are the actions of a bigot.

My factual point: that someone who claims to be a Christian and yet openly feels hatred for a fellow Christian is a false Christian is not based on prejudice or bigotry against any denomination or regional ethnicity - that's your forte - but is instead an analysis of the behavior of specific individuals measured against an objective standard.

One might as well say that I am a bigot for saying that embezzlers are uniformly poor fiduciaries.

70 posted on 06/20/2006 11:34:20 AM PDT by wideawake
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