[smvoice]

And, while you're at it . . . perhaps you could manage an explanation about how rabid clique types who seem to have such a horrid time living by FR Rel Forum's rules manage to abide so flawlessly by the Sermon on the Mount?

I've been wondering the same thing, too, Quix.

There's a WHOLE lot of ATTITUDE going on with those Beatitudes. I can almost hear a snapping finger or a 'talk to the hand' instead of a "blessed are the meek'... Which would be fine if they were not held up as the be-all and end-all sweeping stairsteps to heaven itself.

[Quix]

I don’t mind being challenged to love more or better.

Prayed for that all my life.

However, part of my brief before The Lord is to pop balloons of gross hypocrisy—particularly in the garb of RELIGIOUS PONTIFICAL SAINTLY HAUGHTINESS. LOL.

AND given the evidence, I question that any of the frequent rabid clique sorts of posters would recognize

LOVE FROM APATHY;
LOVE FROM HATE;
LOVE FROM LAZINESS;

Doesn’t sound or feel like they’re very familiar with the concept—much less the loving actions required.

Thanks for your insights and discernment.