I don’t wear pharisee robes and have no horse. I also try not to be a jerk to total strangers on the internet. You follow your conscience and I’ll follow mine. However, it is not the arranged flowers or the baked flour but the appearance. Paul stated when asking Christians not to eat meat sacrificed to idols that here was no problem with the meat, it was the witness to the rest of the society at that time that was important.
that’s not what Paul did exactly....and it’s a poor analogy - and besides: he also said be all things to all men so that we might save some....And by the way, this is a sorry witness to the unsaved, in case you’re wondering. Oh, the angry religious right is all behind it, but that’s not a witness issue.
That was my point.
And you do have your robes, you’re just not aware of it. You assumed all Christians would take your point of view on it....therefore you assumed I was not a Christian. Now you’ll say wait wait...I didn’t say that - but you did. Go read your own post.
That oozes pharisee.