bb is right.
If you think that posts like that display pity and people are misinterpreting it, then there's something wrong with the delivery and that's not on the hearer's end.
Besides, nobody on this planet is stupid enough to think that name calling and insults are pity. Except perhaps the person trying to snow everyone.
I think ALL of us here have been less than generous in our zeal to defend our point of views. I include myself, and some others from the Protestant contingent, if they were honest with themselves should admit the same.
Metmom:
Go back and read YOUR posts and see if you should include yourself in your criticism. You are not exactly an angel of light yourself.
First of all when a comment is made from someone who doesn’t dare face the person they are talking about it needs to be understood that there is nothing near a Christian heart involved. So hate is to be expected.