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To: BlackElk
See my post #56. As to my homepage, I don't need to seek your permission OR approval for what is posted or not posted on it. It shall not be altered according to your like or dislike.

Since you evidently do not grasp what my homepage is about, however, I shall address that. I am concerned with those who call themselves Christian and claim to have superior Christian knowledge, understanding, virtues, faith and conservative ideologies. It is my observation that these same also believe they have the right to judge the hearts and souls of those who contradict them. It is a sad fact, however, that these "Christian leaders'" own behavior is sabotaging their testimony as their behaviors are in contradiction to the Scriptures. By behaving contrary to the Scriptures, my concern is that unbelievers will shun Christ. As a Christian, I am taught that those things which are of permanence take precedence over the temporal, a lesson apparently quite forgotten by those who presume themselves Christian leaders armed with the hammers and saws. For some, it may be more difficult to attempt to act more like the perfect One and be Christ-like, so I believe the Apostle Paul would not tell me I was being 'preachy' at all; he'd probably understand why I am pointing toward him, an imperfect but perfectly changed man, as a role model for Christian behavior.

57 posted on 09/11/2012 9:14:08 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo
You are responding to my #48. Where did I suggest that you need my "permission" to do anything or my approval for that matter? Or that you should alter your homepage according to my likes or dislikes.

You are free to post content on your home page and you choose to do so. I am just as free and choose not to do so. You are free to post such content and everyone else here is free to editorialize on your content. I did.

You are free to vote for abortion-loving, rump ranger "marriage" promoting, gun grabbing, medicine socializing Mittler and I am free to reject such an abominable choice along with his Demonrat opponent.

You are evidently making the obvious mistake of imagining that I give a tinker's damn or the east end of a rodent heading west for your opinions. Nor do I care what or whom you are "concerned" about.

If I should ever feel any "need" to know your idiosyncratic and non-authoritative personal opinions or views as to the meaning of Scripture (or as to what hypothetically St. Paul might tell you), as opposed to the authority of the Teaching Magisterium of the Church to which I belong, I'll be sure to let you be the first to know. Health tip: Don't hold your breath waiting.

When you intend to vote for the ideological and moral train wreck that is Mittler for no better reason than that Obozo is a plane crash, you ought not be surprised NOT to be respected for what you hallucinate is "conservatism" or "morality" by those with the principle to reject BOTH of this year's major party candidates. NOT voting for Mittler OR Obozo is more conservative and more moral than voting FOR either of them.

You are but a keyboard personality on FR and neither a personal friend nor even an acquaintance. Anyone can judge your intended and proclaimed actions. Concededly, judging your heart and soul may well be a different matter (and is God's own province alone since it involves subjective factors that MAY be known to you and to Him but not to your fellow keyboard personalities. Of course, that which is objectively wrong is STILL objectively wrong and however you may subjectively rationalize your wrong intended actions, subjective rationalizations need carry no weight with objective observers. We need not in our relations with others, even on the internet, assume the qualities of potted plants.

Again, no One died and left you in charge of putting your own spin on Scripture unless you are known as Benedict XVI in your day job. I act in the world as God gives me time to do so. I am not a pacifist. I am unlikely to see my role as beating my sword into a plowshare. Your concept of "witness" seems to suggest posing rather than acting. In the world in which we live, there is much in the way of evil. We are not called to condone it (much less out of fear that we might offend). It is traditionally believed that, of the Twelve, Judas committed suicide, John died a natural death in old age and the rest (including Jude Thaddeus who replaced Judas among the Twelve) were martyred.

I make no claims generally as to possessing in my own right "superior Christian knowledge, understanding, virtues, or faith." In your contradictions of others, you also judge. However, we are all sinners. The last two who reached adulthood who were not sinners were Jesus Christ and his mother Mary. It is not a stretch to conclude that all others are sinners, including thee and me.

Your concept of "witness" seems very akin to posing for public consumption. To avoid giving scandal is one thing. To vote for Mittler or Obozo lest we cause "unbelievers to shun Christ" is quite another. We are not called to be Kumbaya mushrooms. See Matthew: 10:34, Luke: 22:36; Luke: 12:49-53 and Luke 14: 25-33. [Cited merely to state a position and Scriptural roots of same and not to invite lengthy Chapter and Verse swap meets of the Catholic vs. Reformed nature, much less re-fighting the Thirty Years' War].

I reasonably suspect that you have disagreements with some of the above because of disagreements between Roman Catholic and Reformed Church theology. That is to be expected. Christianity has not been unified for a substantial number of centuries, Nonetheless, varying though we may on specifics, and in whatever tradition we may worship Him, we are, at least, all of His flock.

There was a humorist Joe Queenan who parodied the song "If I Had a Hammer" substituting as lyrics: "If I had a hammer, I'd smash their guitars..."

There was and is only one Jesus Christ and we shall not see His like until He returns as promised.

61 posted on 09/12/2012 2:14:36 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline/Tomas de Torquemada Gentleman's Society: Roast 'em!)
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