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To: DieHard the Hunter

Rather than using sophistry, why not point out the blasphemies in the billboard for me?
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Die, you dont see any blasphemy in the billboard ?????


96 posted on 12/16/2009 11:25:39 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana
> Die, you dont see any blasphemy in the billboard ?????

The only blasphemies in that billboard are those that we insert if we have a filthy mind. A literal and fair reading of that billboard is true.

Therefore, if you see blasphemies in the billboard, they only got there one way: you put them there by linking the perfectly-innocent picture with the literally-true text and then reading into it a double-entendre. As I said: Honi soit qui mal y pense.

That is the tragic irony to this whole matter that seems to be getting lost: in order to accuse the billboard of being blasphemous, the reader must first create, in his filthy mind, the blasphemy. St Matthew's would have the perfect defense to that:

"...He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." In fact, were I the pastor there, that is the precise response I'd give in my sermon to anyone taking objection to the sign. It is a clever hook, and no doubt it will reel in all sorts of fish. I would be stunned if that weren't his intention all along — if so, it worked brilliantly.

It calls also to mind other sayings of Christ, which include motes and beams, and gnats and camels. We ought to be careful when pointing fingers at others lest we condemn ourselves by so doing.

Which, being true, gives you something important to do on Sunday before taking Communion. And me too, as I initially did precisely what you did.

Sorry, but that's just how it is.

103 posted on 12/16/2009 12:01:26 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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