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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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To: wideawake

Please then explain to me this:

"That is why liberals liberals are Godless.
They are the biggest Bush-haters haters on the planet."

What does one have to do with the other? Your argument is that any Christian cannot hate and or dislike (I'm not a big fan of the word hate) GWB and still be a Christian. That's laughable.

Carter's a christian (so he says), I'm not a big fan of his. Does that mean anything?

You paint a very broad brush.


71 posted on 06/20/2006 11:49:18 AM PDT by JNL
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