When someone attributes sinister motives to everything that someone else does, thinks, or believes, that to me is slander.
From Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary:
“Slander: the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another’s reputation”
It’s one thing to find out the truth about someone’s beliefs and then to disagree with them, but it’s entirely another thing altogether to make up lies, spread them, and then be unwilling to hear the truth or to understand. People who purposefully look for something sinister in someone else’s beliefs, without trying to understand, are determined to find fault and that, to me, is not charity. Sometimes it borders on hatred, which is against Our Lord’s commands. “Love one another, as I have loved you.” John 13:34. Love “thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;” I Corinthians 13:5b-6
Exactly. Can one really call ones self a Christian if if they do this? It seems antithetical to Christianity to spread lies and be unwilling to accept the truth.
Exactly.
I was smacked down a bit ago because one particular poster continually misquoted the Pope stating that he was saying Protestants won’t go to heaven.
After a few days of directly linking to the Vatican document and politely correcting the poster, I lost it. AGAIN he came onto a thread and spewed the same garbage.
I called him a liar and a slander. IMO, this was the intent. Who got the slap? Me.
At what point does a person go from being mistaken to intentionally slandering? Never, according to the powers that be. We are not allowed to make it “personal”.
Proving that I don’t kick my dog is really hard to prove when a poster keeps stating, against all proof, that I kick my dog.