All I said initially was “stop picking on the Mormons.” They are our friends and allies in this battle. If you get distracted trying to convert your allies in the middle of a war you will lose the war. Your need to proselytize is a distraction and it is insulting to our friends the Mormons who, like me, are fighting to keep our temporal world intact. Same thing with conservative Jewish people. We need them fighting with us. Not walking away because someone wants to preach to them. Now is not the time. Riddle me this, counselor... when you are trying a case, do you, in the middle of the trial, start preaching to judge and jury? I think not. Nor do I. We know better and the bar would have our heads...
Yes, when in trial mode, I play by the rules of the trial. But I never stop integrating my faith with what I’m doing, even during trial. True, I am not advocating perpetual, non-stop witnessing. That would be problematic. I *am* advocating opportunistic witnessing. God opens a window, I step through it. God closes a window, I wait for the next one to open.
Beck’s teaching of a mixture of truth and error has created several such windows, and what God opens, no human can shut. So you put me in a dilemma. If God invites me to witness, and I do not, because I am worried his political plans will somehow be derailed if I do, then I insult Him. On the other hand, if I challenge Beck, or Freemasons, or Moonies, or Baptists, or whoever, for falsehoods presented (just kidding Baptists, you’re all perfect ;), I may well insult some well-intended people, just as you say.
But it’s just not that hard a choice for me. I know who I’d rather not insult, if, no matter what I do, I will end up insulting somebody. You and I insult the socialists just for existing. I think our fellow constitutionalists and lovers of freedom who happen to belong to other faiths have bigger hearts and thicker skins than you give them credit for. So I will continue to call Beck on false teaching. I have no choice. God will not lose track of where he was in saving America.
Furthermore, if some wandering soul comes to faith through the instrumentality of telling the truth, that’s one more person that the communists will not be able to have for lunch, and that helps us all. When I came to faith, it was in part through the “insulting” work of a homeless man in L.A. Knocked me right off my path to self-destruction. How rude! Yet I will never forget him. Like Solomon says, rebuke a wise man, and he will love you for it. Give our allies in this fight some credit. If they are wise, they can only appreciate our commitment to the truth. And both of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Peace,
SR