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Thinker,
Email me if you wish, and please show me how you can call someone a liar nicely and politely.
Ever watched two opposing lawyers in court?
donnyresponse@yahoo.com
Donny - I believe you have been called such very nicely and politely. To divorce the accusation from a feeling of hatred and from a simmering anger usuaally workds quite well. I dont's believe whaat you said is true at leaast according to such and such. Perhaps you'd like to go over your conclusions again based on this new information. Something along those lines. My issues with your words is that they set us up to hate one another and thaat alwaays ends badly. Somdbody is expelled, or hurt and in some places killed by this game you play. Try seeing people in terms of their God given humanity instead of what you think their politics say about them. That might work too. Stereotypes just don't work well - true on the surface, absolute lies in reality. My sleeping pill is kicking in here, so I better not say anymore.
When Christians show humility and love their neighbours as themselves, they are a beacon.
When they snarl and attack and equate things of Caesar with things of God, they surround such light as they have with a briar of poisonous thorns.
What non-Christian will dig through that briar rather than be repelled by it?
And what of Christians who see the briar and know that many will not know their faith because of it?
The irony of course is that the Christian in the briar does not see himself as others do. Then (s)he would be faced with the need to burn down the briar patch to allow the light to shine clearly. (This is also true of people of other faiths and none. If they wish the light to shine through them and enlighten, there is a need to burn their briars.)
probably the main reason I could never be a Christian: they all seem to hate each other so much.
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” -- James Thurber, American Writer, 1894-1961
Shouting, accusations, and hate have NEVER won anyone over to one's side of an argument. Talking with someone is leagues better than talking at them. But some people cannot see the difference between the light that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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