[jobim]

It is better that people vocally want God to be at the top of their pictures, whatever the specifics of their view of how God assumes that role, than that they should try to dumb the discussion about the faith down to making it some kind of helper auxiliary to worldly goals.

Agreed. The therapeutic society growing around us is frightening. Be bold in loving and serving God, yes indeed.

If “ALL” we want to be is “Gentlepersons” then we will fail in the end to be even that.

Again, agreed.

As an unabashed Wascally Evangelical, I am “assured” that Christ is big enough to handle the confusion.

Here, I think, is the tricky part. It's "confusion" to start spouting off one's beliefs in the library, or a movie theater, or the art gallery, or the street corner, or the Thanksgiving dinner table, depending on one's comportment. Civil exchange requires a witty discernment of when and where to unleash, unload. Certainly God understands, but He wants us to be effective purveyors and transmitters of His word.

[Elsie]

Civil exchange requires a witty discernment of when and where to unleash, unload.

Tell me about it!!

[CynicalBear]

>>Here, I think, is the tricky part. It's "confusion" to start spouting off one's beliefs in the library, or a movie theater, or the art gallery, or the street corner, or the Thanksgiving dinner table, depending on one's comportment.<<

Where is it that you think discussion of religious beliefs should be confined to?