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You seem to be really worked up over this -- even more than I am. I guess you would have been happier if my title had read "Creationist Christians," but I do believe that Trudeau intended his message to be a veiled slur against the resurrection, and he is using an attack on Creationism as a vehicle to make his point. Since the resurrection is truly an essential dogma of all Christian belief, I contend that my title is accurate. You seem to think his decision to address this topic on the holiest day of the Christian year is only a coincidence, but I simply can't buy that.

I am sorry I got you so agitated. I do wish you a happy Easter and God's blessings.
JHL

“I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever.” Psalm 89:1

Words: John Greenleaf Whittier. This hymn, and We May Not Climb the Heavenly Steeps, come from Whittier’s poem “The Master,” in The Panorama, and other Poems, 1856.

Music: “Serenity,” adapted by Uzziah C. Burnap, 1856, from “Waft, Ye Winds,” by William V. Wallace, 1836 (MIDI, score).

Immortal love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never ebbing sea!

Our outward lips confess the name
All other names above;
Love only knoweth whence it came,
And comprehendeth love.

Blow, winds of God, awake and blow
The mists of earth away:
Shine out, O Light divine, and show
How wide and far we stray.

We may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For Him no depths can drown.

But warm, sweet, tender, even yet,
A present help is He;
And faith still has its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.

The healing of His seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch Him in life’s throng and press,
And we are whole again.

Through Him the first fond prayers are said
Our lips of childhood frame,
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with His Name.

O Lord and Master of us all,
Whate’er our name or sign,
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test our lives by Thine.

The letter fails, the systems fall,
And every symbol wanes;
The Spirit over brooding all,
Eternal Love remains.

O Lord and Master of us all,
Whate’er our name (( ship )) or sign (( flag )),
We own Thy sway, we hear Thy call,
We test (( sail )) our lives by Thine.

You seem to be really worked up over this -- even more than I am.

When it comes to blatant manipulation and shameless string-pulling, you're damn right I get worked up. Christians deserve better than to have their energies wasted in such foolishness.

I have no idea why you would be worked up over your own troll post. Maybe it's the stirrings of that still, small voice somewhere inside?

but I do believe that Trudeau intended his message to be a veiled slur against the resurrection, and he is using an attack on Creationism as a vehicle to make his point. Since the resurrection is truly an essential dogma of all Christian belief, I contend that my title is accurate.

I've already seen through your tortured logic and pretend pathos. I'm sure there are people who will buy this particular load of shinola, but I'm not one of them. Heaven knows there are so many real attacks against Christianity that there is no need to go creating them out of thin air.