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Originally Posted by awareness
Thanks for the honest and straight up reply.
Why is that strange? In the church we were taught Christianity was Christless, and many worse things. Did you fail to get that memo?
I pick on Christians so much because I feel that first I was bamboozled by my cradle religion (SBC) and then by the local church. Apparently you don't feel bamboozled by either your cradle religion or the local church. Why you left the local church and are on a forum of disgruntled exmembers is beyond me ... 'cept you prolly got tired of being abused by them. We must be better abusers. haha (laughter). If not we should try harder.
What constitutes a fair minded person to you?
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A fair-minded person, in our context here, can differentiate between a few bad examples and the whole. What you do is what generally defines bigotry --
project the failures of a few upon the whole.
No fair-minded person would castigate every LC-er solely for what Mel Porter did to you back in the chaotic 80's. This is why I constantly differentiate between the actions of leaders at LSM and the typical LC members. Your "unbalanced" views leave no room for differentiation, and consequently you seem unable to find
anything good from your time in the SBC or TLR. That is not healthy bro!
Then you set out to "prove" your thesis on a regular basis. For example, Ohio is an evangelist who does not condemn Trump for his policies, and yet Trump is a "known" misogynist, xenophobic, racist, abusive, and immoral billionaire,
therefore all evangelicals are also misogynist, xenophobic, racist, abusive, and immoral. That is the message I hear on this thread.
Don't you think that is just a little too extreme?
Also, W. Lee did teach that "
all Christianity was Christless" in the 1976 summer Revelations training. Forty years ago I accepted that and it had a negative impact on me. But I also heard in parochial school that Lutherans can't go to heaven. So what?!? Do we still cling to those archaic generalizations? Are we taking that nonsense to our graves? To be honest, my wife and I are slowly becoming friends with our Catholic and Protestant neighbors
because we have dropped that old junk we heard in our youth.