THANKS TONS for that.
True. I cherish hearts and souls and even minds of all stripes. Shrillery's is sort of on probation but she's a special case. LOL.
However, I don't mind being outrageously hyperbolic and satirical about deceptions of the enemy which, from my perspective and observation, --deceptions, distortions, lies which are eternally deadly to souls, hearts and minds. I especially am prone to being that way when confronted with what, to me, are outrageous hypocrisies in the perspectives cited.
To me, outrageous satire and hyperbole are many levels nicer and more benign than outrageous hypocrisies.
And, in the history of such threads, I understand the other perspective has historically been fiercely assaultive to persons. So, I'm not real clear on what basis offense has been chosen. Doesn't seem to me like a stoneless one is available to anyone.
So, I am saddened when folks take offense. But, in my experiences on the farm, it's the stuck porkers who squeel the loudest. If a perspective can't take the heat, maybe it needs some adjustment or at least some new mirrors.
I think satire provides some of the most potent mirrors any of us could ask for. I'm happy if anyone's satire or hyperbole . . . even outrageous mocking . . . causes me to examine fruitfully even the possibility of hypocrisy on my part. I may not enjoy every word and phrase initially. They may smart or even hurt deeply. But I try to take that as a sign that something needs examined more carefully, prayerfully and probably more with Holy Spirit's searchlight of Biblical Truth.
Pain is informative--hopefully toward healing and growth. Even the pain of satire ought to be so, imho. Else I wouldn't risk it.
Am humbled by your wisdom and perceptiveness and very mature modeling hereon. Of course, I also happen to agree pretty wholesale with your thoroughly Biblical and reality based perspective.
You confirm publicly what I know to be true about you, that you love everyone and like to use satire to warn others you sense are in danger in one way or another.
Some non-Calvinists around are hilarious posters who can be brutal with their wit as they challenge Calvinism. As an outsider to the conversation looking in, I can appreciate the wit - and the occasional ruffled feathers it causes.
I'm sure if it goes "overboard" the Religion Moderator pulls it.