“I’ll call you out on your specific beliefs where I feel they are wrong (e.g., creationism), but I won’t wear the tenets of my devout Christian faith on a sandwich board for you to critique.”
And that is precisely what I’m doing with you. You are obviously worried that someone will cease to listen to your message if you reveal your true beliefs.
You see, I don’t mind telling you exactly what I believe and wearing my faith as a badge of honor because I am convinced. The only reason I might hide my true beliefs is if I were either ashamed of them or if I wanted to hide them for some other prupose. ie: to pull others in slowly. It’s what many cults do. They preach Jesus and Christianity straight up then after they draw you in they reveal their “other” beliefs. Always something extra to “sweeten” what God is “truly” offering.
I’m not convinced of which is true with you. I just know it’s one or the other.
“...I don’t mind telling you exactly what I believe and wearing my faith as a badge of honor...”
That’s great—I’m more private.
But you’re still attempting to divide and elevate; that was the crux of my post.
“I’m not convinced of which is true with you. I just know it’s one or the other.”
You make it easy. Apparently, based on my posts here, you can conclude definitively that I’m either ashamed of my faith or a David Koresh clone. Sigmund, you still got it!
If someone disagrees with you, you “demonize by definition”. Some Christians are just more equal than others, I guess.