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To: OpusatFR; smvoice
>> He didn’t say sit on your computer day after day in your house and complain about those who actually have the duty to shepherd and safeguard the Christians of the ME.<<

Did you ask Him? How did you acquire the position to tell people what their calling from God is?

>> I don’t deal well with hypocrites.<<

Hypocrit - "One who puts on a false appearance, to hide his real motives, one who feigns, a play actor, a fake, a fraud, a phony."

Isn’t that what you are promoting? Put on a false appearance so as not to endanger anyone, to hide your real motive?

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

67 posted on 10/02/2011 3:25:01 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear; OpusatFR; smvoice
Isn’t that what you are promoting? Put on a false appearance so as not to endanger anyone, to hide your real motive?

If you were hiding Jews and the Nazis came do your door looking for them, would you say, "You apostate Nazis, of course I have Jews upstairs, and you will never get them, because God protects them!" Or would you exercise prudence and wisdom, and attempt to convince the Nazis that you were harmless and knew nothing of any Jews being hidden by anyone?

You and smvoice are effectively castigating the Pope for behaving with prudence and caution where other people's lives are at stake. I submit that if you had any loved ones in the Middle East, most especially if they were priests or nuns with targets on their backs if the Pope spoke incautiously, you would be most pleased by his prudence.

The Pope invited the Muslims to a discussion of their tendencies toward violence. They responded by murdering nuns, burning churches, etc. I would say the discussion is finished, and the Pope needs to say nothing more. The discussion is one for soldiers to conduct, not churchmen.

68 posted on 10/02/2011 5:39:32 PM PDT by Campion ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
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