The reason I seldom post on Freerepublic anymore is that I know longer care to engage with all the busybodies telling people what is or isn't proper behavior for a conservative or a Christian. I'm more content these days to look at the log in my own eye than to attempt removing the speck out of others' eyes.
The body politic, like the Body of Christ, is better served with less factionalism by individuals who claim to believe in the same things.
I suppose this is a minor opus on my part. I've no longer the time nor inclination to argue over minor points of political or religious orthodoxy....
And I thought we were discussing whether church pastors should admonish their flocks that they need to try to live holy lives, and what that means and how to accomplish it, and how there is a perception that some churches (especially the really large ones) don't do this - and sometimes that perception filters down into the flock (at least on the fringes).
Telling someone how to live a life of holiness isn't pointing a finger at them and telling them they are evil, btw...it's instructing them that look, these are pitfalls. If you want to grow in Christ, work to avoid them.