So we'll add "smart-ass" and "slanderer" to the list of personal insults then. OK.
My mistake in thinking I could be civil with you.
I guess that means the post in which you called me a slanderer was intended to be civil in tone. Oddly enough, I actually found the accusation of slander to be a little off-putting, but I soldiered on.
Now Bro Zech (and such other bystanders as feel compelled to gaze at my humble words) . . . No need to be unmindfully, thoughtlessly clueless! These experiences with such folk are a TRADITION hereabouts. It's part of a certain ilk of a . . . well . . . a . . .
RED BADGE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRISTINE INTELLECTUALLY PUREST PURE; TRUEST TRULY TRUE THEOLOGY!
GAG, HACK, CHOKE, COUGH, AIR!!!
TO TRADITION! (Cue Tevye and Fiddler On The Roof sound track) After all, someone HAS to keep the ranks of the pontificating whited sepulchrs full! LOL.
BTW, the above satirical commentary is brought to you through the courtesy of . . . the money changer's tables at the LaHaye sidewalk institute. It is a commentary on a subset of theological perspectives on the part of a subset of Christian pontificators striving earnestly to follow in the best steps of the Papal pontificators while denying the pontifications thereof. Kind of akin to believing Paul's writing except when he talks about wishing that all prophecied or prayed in tongues etc. . . . a form of Godliness while denying the power there of etc.
Therefore, all resemblence between the above satire and the guilty is either totally by chance or thoroughly intended or some mysterious combination of the above. Get your handy Holy Land olive wood discerner out and see if you can detect, if you have nothing better to do.
BT
AR
EOJ
Sometimes, it seems to come off as a major doctrine of the faith. LOL.
But actually, I think it's only a doctrine of man; a tradition of man; a social custom.