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To: wideawake

So then I would assume that Anne Coulter wouldn't be your cup to tea then. Because, after all:

"Let's say I go out every night, I meet a guy and have sex with him. Good for me. I'm not married."
-- Ann Coulter, Rivera Live, June 7, 2000

Kind of blows out that whole anti-fornication rule.


80 posted on 06/20/2006 12:30:34 PM PDT by JNL
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To: JNL
Kind of blows out that whole anti-fornication rule.

For those with poor reading comprehension, I'm sure that it does.

With those of us who have an acceptable level of reading comprehension, it is common knowledge that when a person prefaces a comment with the phrase "Let's say" this means they are using what is called an "hypothetical."

Miss Coulter is not asserting here that she commits fornication, but presenting an hypotehtcial scenario in which she is a fornicator in order to make a larger point - presumably on the moral distinction between fornication and adultery.

I'll point out that your gut response to my post was to try and dig up a quote from Ann Coulter shorn of its context in order to cloud the actual issue at hand.

This is an evasive tactic, not at all part of a reasoned debate.

The question at issue is this: Can a person legitimately claim to be a Christian while simultaneously professing hatred for another Christian?

The answer is no, regardless of whether Ann Coulter is an habitual fornicator in a hypothetical universe or not.

81 posted on 06/20/2006 12:40:53 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: JNL
"So then I would assume that Anne Coulter wouldn't be your cup to tea then. Because, after all:

"Let's say I go out every night, I meet a guy and have sex with him. Good for me. I'm not married."
-- Ann Coulter, Rivera Live, June 7, 2000

Kind of blows out that whole anti-fornication rule."


Have you ever heard of the term "hypothetical" in your life before?
101 posted on 06/20/2006 4:53:45 PM PDT by Jameison
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