Please don't ping me, if it's not an inconvenience for me to ask, to these controversial threads any more.
What I observe is that they lead to a deadening of reason and a weakening of charity.
Quix: anyone who thinks that a picture of a horse appearing to laugh (however funny -- and it's pretty funny, the first few dozen times) is, as you say, a logical response to anything doesn't use the word "logic" as it has been used by philosophers and theologians for most of the past 2,400 years.
Very nearly every one of us here will be judged on the last day by the words of the 4th Chapter of Paul's (beautiful) Letter to the Ephesians. And very nearly everyone will be accused, not by angels or saints, not even by the Judge Himself, but by those who have lost their souls because we made Christianity, made Christ Himself repulsive to them -- and ourselves repulsive to one another.
We are invited, instead to "lead a life worth of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Is there anyone on these interminable threads who does not stand convicted by these words?
Thanks for your considered and thoughtful exhortation.
Will prayerfully ponder it some more.
I don’t believe I’ve been pinging you much to much of anything.