We all have to have a purpose in life, sitetest, and I guess tattling is yours.
Yes, I see that the Catholics here pride themselves on their intellect. But I’ve no need to go any further than Jesus Himself to make my point.
If you want deep theological discussions, as Catholics are wont to do, then no you won’t find anything of interest from me. All I care about is telling others about Jesus and the simple way He saves. There are far better than me among the believers on FR that can teach deeper Christian meaning.
So my posts are not for Catholics...they are for those seekers who know nothing of the Lord and who could be led astray by Roman doctrine. My calling is to represent truth, not religion or high-minded theology.
Good day to you.
“We all have to have a purpose in life, sitetest,...”
My purposes in life aren't related to Free Republic.
I visit FR because it's the best news aggregator on the Internet.
Once upon a time, discussion of religions topics between non-Catholic Christians and Catholics here at FR was often a worthwhile pursuit. Before the rise of the Religion Forum in its current form, with its current rules, there were actually meaningful conversations between people who saw Salvation History through different lens. Some of these conversations were, actually, quite deep, theologically. And illuminating, at least for me, helping me to understand why others believe differently from how I believe.
Some of the non-Catholic Christians here touched me, personally, quite deeply, with their love of God and their deep understanding of Him, even if that understanding was different from my own.
But just as bad money drives out good money, bad posting drives out good posting.
And the current regime in place encouraged a sort of bad posting, and thus, by necessity, drove out the good.
The result of these things is that the forum now hosts folks self-persuaded that they are the prophets of the Lord! Folks self-persuaded that their need to engage in personal cruelty and indecency are actually signs of their appointment as prophets of the Lord! Yay! Go, team, go!
In my view, there are significant problems with how the Religion Forum is run. I've said what I think to the Religion Moderator, on more than one occasion. He, being a person who thinks he's open and fair-minded, listened to me. But it doesn't appear to me that he ever was able to wrap his head around what I was saying.
Well, it's not my site (as we are all reminded regularly), so I do my best to obey the rules of the site, to "stay within the lines." But as I said, what's good for the goose, is good for the gander.
So we continue to be a site that hosts some of the most scurrilous hate screeds around, given to us by individuals who mostly are charlatans or in need of psychotherapy.
But there's an occasional article of interest. And further, I've been here going on 16 years, and have made friends, and like to check in on them now and then. Some of these folks, I've known through FR for a while, and I'd miss them. And FR is still the best news aggregator on the Internet.
I have no interest in at all in anything you have to say. Yours is not the gospel of Jesus. It has nothing to do with Christ or God. But your inept posts do make me chuckle.
And I try to look for the silver lining in every cloud.
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