Did I say anything like "idly finger" in my post to you? That's right, I did not. So why imply, with the use of quotation marks, that I did?
My repentances and confessions are primarily to God.
That's all well and good. But when you insult people or their beliefs routinely and gratuitously, out of context to the discussion at hand, one supposes you could manage at least a grudging acknowledgment of the fact. You could last weekend, when it was part of a general feel-good chorus, and there was a certain "expediency" to doing so.
Part of the problem here, according to your own statement referenced above, is that you just might be too prideful to recognize blatant insensitivity directed to anyone, and retreat behind a silent "apology" to God. I would suppose that something directed to both God and the person(s) in question would be in order.
In the meantime, I doubt an objective observer would consider my "allegations" about posts 7, 9, 11 and 14 to be all that "off the wall."
Have a nice day.
Didn’t mean to imply you’d said “idly finger.” Sorry for that.
You may choose to see my fierceness as insulting to beliefs. Folks may choose to see such as insulting to their person.
I’m certainly derisive etc. to beliefs I find to be hostile to Scripture and high priority Biblical standards . . . with certain folks demonstrating a certain sort of attitude and outrageousness in their own communications.
I’m quite careful in my wording to avoid personal assault and not only in behalf of forum rules. I have no personal nor Christian need to assault persons. Persons, I love.
Blasphemy and idolatry and related outrages I hate. I’ve seen the destructiveness in my own life. It’s truly frightful.
I don’t see my word contributions to be gratuitous, per se, at all. I understand that you do.
The next paragraph of yours is wholesale inaccurate. I’m typically the first to confess and repent to God and man in most situations.
The complexities and distances between our two camps are somewhat symbolized by the distances between the most forceful of the two groups of pontificators. They are not easy to articulate well, much less deal with well.
I’ve seen tons of Protty efforts to do back flips trying to bridge the gap toward RC’s.
It has often appeared that a number of the RC’s in obviously insensitive, blind ignorance of such or hostility to such have appeared to be happy to shred even such efforts in the fiercest, harshest, most abusive terms.
Yet the Prottys are the ones who get the pontifical lectures about their behaviors! LOL.
The Prottys are the ones who get the harsh personal abuse. The Prottys are the ones who get outrageous statements made about their heart motives etc. . . . yet another example of generous . . . even . . . gratuitous . . . personal attack and hostility.
A fair number of RC’s get only or virtually only sweetness and light from me publically and privately. I wonder why that is.