A Plague Upon Denominationalism!

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Originally Posted by Evangelical

You take issue with me referencing Westboro baptist, but you don't say anything about Aron comparing the Recovery to Marx and Pol Pot (a mass murderer)- what Aron said seems like interjecting nonsense to me, and also reveals your bias.

While I would not agree with the characterization, your comparison was worse. Aron's was intended to make a comparison of someone bad being driven out by someone worse as they herald the bad of the old group. Using such an extreme group as a comparison is a problem because it tends to suggest that the thing it is put up against is just as severe.

I would agree that it is not. But the type of comparison is arguably valid.

But you didn't do what aron did (or you are not smart enough to know that you didn't). When the statement was to join with an evangelical group, like almost any Baptist group, to dig out the example of one that would have its claim to the name "Baptist" removed years ago if the Baptists were actually a denomination as you so like to gripe at. But they are not. They are an association by choice of the assembly, not the group. So they are sort of stuck with Westboro.

Therefore your example is not "like what aron did." It is markedly different, without any actual, metaphorical, or other truthful comparison.