BTW, Guffaws to the max is many orders of magnitude gentler than
'used of satan to lure folks to hell'
And, I think if someone's perspective is too delicate to stand being laughed at, it's probably too delicate to share on such an open forum.
Well, I have to agree that there might have been a more diplomatic way of expressing that. (Ya think?)(At least he could have put a big 'S' on Satan.)
Here's what I think: Guffaws to the max (hereinafter "GTTM") isn't a proposition, it's a statement of a feeling, an emotikonal reaction, right? The closest to a sentence that it comes is, "That [or 'you'] make(s) me laugh, that idea is [ or 'you are'] risible." Who can argue with that? But who will learn theology from that? It just means,"Bad! Negative! Silly! Stupid!" It's what my 3 year old said when she didn't like something, whether or not it was good for her.
What I will learn from it is that when I struggle to express my religious commitment, something intimate and dear to me, I will be laughed at. After a while I won't take the trouble, and conversation will languish.
The "lure to hell" idea, while (carelessly? unwisely?) provocatively (to say the least) expressed, at least is a proposition: to wit: dissent from the One Church is or provides a tool for the bad guys. So when we wipe the spit off our face, we can say stuff like, "Dissent?" "One Church?" "Tool?" "bad guys?" and start doing some, ah, parsing and examining.
Another point: What I learn from my mere 275 hours of t-group was that I could choose when and how to interact from among a variety of ways, that what is appropriate for a t-group may not be appropriate for a seminar, and it's up to me which of a whole battery of commo styles I use. To me the idea of psycho therapy is to expand my range of choices and to develop my freedom to choose among them.
BTW, Guffaws to the max is many orders of magnitude gentler than 'used of satan to lure folks to hell'
I answer that: "Guffaws to the max" is saying it's laughable, contemptible. The other is an opinion which can be discussed.