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To: Quix
Thank you for your replies! I see offense has been taken from poking fun at another confession. But I know your heart because we are both Christian, and I know you would never intentionally hurt another one of Christ's sheep.
2,039 posted on 10/31/2006 10:04:34 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

THANKS TONS for that.

True. I cherish hearts and souls and even minds of all stripes. Shrillery's is sort of on probation but she's a special case. LOL.

However, I don't mind being outrageously hyperbolic and satirical about deceptions of the enemy which, from my perspective and observation, --deceptions, distortions, lies which are eternally deadly to souls, hearts and minds. I especially am prone to being that way when confronted with what, to me, are outrageous hypocrisies in the perspectives cited.

To me, outrageous satire and hyperbole are many levels nicer and more benign than outrageous hypocrisies.

And, in the history of such threads, I understand the other perspective has historically been fiercely assaultive to persons. So, I'm not real clear on what basis offense has been chosen. Doesn't seem to me like a stoneless one is available to anyone.

So, I am saddened when folks take offense. But, in my experiences on the farm, it's the stuck porkers who squeel the loudest. If a perspective can't take the heat, maybe it needs some adjustment or at least some new mirrors.

I think satire provides some of the most potent mirrors any of us could ask for. I'm happy if anyone's satire or hyperbole . . . even outrageous mocking . . . causes me to examine fruitfully even the possibility of hypocrisy on my part. I may not enjoy every word and phrase initially. They may smart or even hurt deeply. But I try to take that as a sign that something needs examined more carefully, prayerfully and probably more with Holy Spirit's searchlight of Biblical Truth.

Pain is informative--hopefully toward healing and growth. Even the pain of satire ought to be so, imho. Else I wouldn't risk it.

Am humbled by your wisdom and perceptiveness and very mature modeling hereon. Of course, I also happen to agree pretty wholesale with your thoroughly Biblical and reality based perspective.


2,044 posted on 10/31/2006 10:49:15 AM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Alamo-Girl

Additional pondering . . .

I think PC thinking has left a lot . . . of evidently even some FREEPERS with the notion that we have a right to avoid being offended.

In a sense, we do. We have the right to refuse to be offended regardless of what anyone else does or says. But then that's a right exclusively reserved for Arminians! LOL.

Calvinists have no choice about whether they are going to be offended or not. God has already decreed it. So, there's no point in their railing at the supposed trigger. They need to rail at God, instead. LOL.

But other than the right to choose what level of stimulus will offend in what context . . . there is no right to not be offended! Sheesh! Especially in America on a Conservative forum?!!!

Sweetness and light are wonderful in their place.

But I hope to goodness someone resists THE TEMPTATION to AVOID OFFENDING me, if my perspective, behavior or anything else need hit upside the head with a figurative 2 X 4 to wake me up to outrageous inconsistencies, outrageous thinking; outrageous speaking, writing; outrageous theologies.

Certainly Jesus was not the slightest hesitant to be satiracle and even verbally assaultive at perspectives, positions which were deadly. I do try and follow that example, earnestly.

. . . prayerfully, out of similiar motivation.


2,048 posted on 10/31/2006 11:04:39 AM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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