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I wonder how many here realize that the behavior exhibited here is part of the reason so many people turn away from Christianity. The infighting and mud slinging- from ALL sides- do not honor what Christ gave us through His sacrifice, and those anti-Christian folks out there rightfully question how we can know anything about the Love of Christ when we can’t even obey His commandment to love one another.

Think about how long it has been since Christ walked among man. Think of what has occurred in history and consider what impact that might have had on the development of the “Church” as you may view it. And then question if you could do any better.

Alright, go ahead and flame me. I don’t care. I know I don’t have “it” completely right, but I’m doing the best I can within the limits of being human. The rest is between me and God, and that’s how I view everyone else. If you accept Christ and truly do your best to live by Christ’s teachings, I can get over differences because that’s between YOU and GOD. I believe in right and wrong, and I believe some things are absolutely right and others absolutely wrong... but when it comes down to tradition or liturgy, I wasn’t here to see how things started, so I try my best to live right by God.

Let the flaming begin.

Thanks for your wise post.

As Sacred Scripture so well says it: “Come, let us reason together”.

The following mental scenario has SO often occurred to me:

If we were all not hiding behind our screen names but were facing each other one-on-one, we surely would be more careful in how we talk to each other, and how we presented our point of view (unless, of course, we are the Fred Phelps of the Christian world). That is, if we had some modicum of respect not only for the other, but for ourself as well.

If we were in the same place face-to-face with each other, and there were three or more of us, we might even be MORE careful how we presented our Christian life and ways for others to see (that is, unless we were hell-bent on forming cliques and taking on the appearance of pack mentality)

But if all of us, whether one-on-one, or in small groups, were to be seated together, with the Lord Himself watching and listening, we all might be very careful about our attitudes, our words and our fidelity to His commandments to “do unto others” and “whatsoever you do unto your brother, you do unto Me” and for accounting for every word that comes out of our mouths.

My mother often cautioned me with the following, (in a perfect Celtic “burr”)

There so much good in the worst of us
and so much bad in the best of us
that it ill begets any of us
to talk about the rest of us”

I think this is where your well-expressed thoughts in this post can be read over and over again to our great advantage.