TM7, Please admit that you are a not so closet anti Israel type. I don't know if you are an actual covert Jew basher or not since you say you're married to a Jew. I would say it takes a pretty damn faithful Jew to stand eyeball to eyeball day end and day out 24/7 with a bunch of frenzied Arabs on a bit of ground that was deemed pretty damned worthless UNTIL THE JEWS SETTLED THERE. I think they can be excused a bit of paranoia. I daresay they conform to "our" way of thinking a lot closer than some of our other allies around the world. One would think we have a good deal of influence on them because of the large population of Jews in America. Quite like Rome and the large number of Roman Cathali cs here. Back to your complaint, why don't you take a few Neo-Nazis with the leather vests and the swastikas tattooed on their foreheads and go down to Harlem and hand out some tracts. You know, First Amendment and all.... I'm sure Rev Wright will safeguard you.............
(and if they bothered you, let's cut off their welfare, hee hee)
Sorry IG if you didn't understand my first paragraph. I was trying to phonetically replicate the speakings of an Honours Grad from the Whole Truth Bible College. I'll try to be more obtuse next time.
If you will recall, it was you friend and fellow zealot, Powderman, that first ascribed to himself the puffery to defile and debase an entire race of people, an entire religion as "Godless and sub-human". He has since professed to be the repository of "decency" and "morality" and "True Christian Values". Yet when I have asked him to describe those values so we poor unwashed could work toward his perfection, he has stood mute and we have continued to be lost. But he continues to call names and give derogatory titles like dyke and queer to folks that don't match his perfection. And, Oh Lord, spout Bible verses. Like a Bibical Barbie doll with an evangelical string hanging out of his back (and you don't do bad yourself). And, of course, if anyone disagrees with him, they are "anti-Christian". It's an automatic out no matter how stupid or mean-minded the idea, like if you don't vote for Hussein, you're a racist, if you don't vote for Rodham, you're a sexist, etc.
So you see, "Godless and sub-human" was not my coin. But since I am a Christian, I feel entitled to use it. No matter how inappropriate it is. Isn't that what being a Christian is all about? Learning about 10 or so one-liners that prove whatever you want or justify whatever life style you want to live and then you get to feel superior to other folks? You get to defile and debase them. You get to take sound bytes and snippets out of the context of their lives and make them into monsters? If you took select lines and phrases from the Bible, you could come up with a pretty terrible document. Carefully edited, you could make Jesus out to be a bad person. Those money changers were just trying to make a living don'tchaknow.
Also, I resent be called, "anti-Christian". I may not be the perfect Christian that you and P-man are but in my own quiet way, I don't do too bad. I'm happy with myself. I'm not a "running scared" Christian like P-man has confessed to being. If I do a something good, I do it because it seems the thing to do. I don't have any big-time, philosophical debate with myself: "oh, will God love me if I do this?, Am I gonna get points in Heaven? Will my neighbors think I'm moral, decent, God fearing?" I just do it. P-man has admitted that he does good acts because he is afraid of what will happen if he doesn't.
I was talking to a businessman a couple of weeks ago and I explained to him that an employee shouldn't have to work to company standards. He felt this was a paradox until I explained that on being hired, the employee should read the company mission and after that if he didn't satisfy the company's standards while satisfying his own, he was in the wrong job or wrong position. That's kinda how I feel about my Christianity. I don't KNOW the Bible. I can't rip you out a verse to justify any kind of meanness I want to do, but I UNDERSTAND the Bible. And I am not afraid.
I kinda wisht Hooker would hang out in here more, He seemed to KNOW the Bible and UNDERSTAND the Bible.