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To: Mad Dawg

But when our sensibilities and biases blind us to truth . . . there is a problem. And God can care a lot about that.


8,307 posted on 02/01/2007 9:19:47 AM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE & HIS ENEMIES BE 100% DONE-IN; & ISLAM & TRAITORS FLUSHED)
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To: Quix
I'm personally suspicious of lines of thought which seem to justify being rude and insensitive. There is an awful lot of stomping around using needlessly repetitive and offensive language and then explaining that doing what is almost guaranteed to raise hackles is "just" an effort to prod or poke people into understanding the "Truth" which, mirabile dictu, just happens to be what the eager and persistent giver of offense claims to have an inside track on.

In fencing matches this behavior would lead to an ejection from the piste. Here leaping roughshod on the sensitivities of others, refusing to show the least comprehension of each other's point of view is implausibly attributed to an excess of love for the person one is abusing.

It's very like the way Democrats do social programs. The intention is noble so the outcomes don't matter. And this is explained as an example of "fruits of the Spirit".

8,314 posted on 02/01/2007 9:41:48 AM PST by Mad Dawg ("It's our humility which makes us great." -- Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers)
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