Thank God
Tucker responds to Steve:
And of course the hypocrisy of using this Christianity which he finds so distasteful as a rhetorical truncheon with which to beat anyone who disagrees with him has completely escaped our own dear, open-minded Tucker. He apparently thinks someone has appointed him referee of Christian behavior, regardless of the fact that he isn't within light-years of having any understanding of it.
First of all - Steve, thank God you're alive, everyone has been worried sick.
Secondly, let me say I am not really "ambivalent" towards the Christian church: those are Steve's words (from a past post in which he found it necessary to use my dead grandmother's name) not mine. If I did not care about the current sorry state of American Christianity, then I wouldn't let so-called "Christians" who love (pretty much exclusively) their possessions, their own self-righteousness, and pointing their fingers at gays and "baby killers" bother me so much.
Thirdly, no one has appointed me anything, but it doesn't take a whole lot to know what Jesus would think about "pushing the Palestinians into the sea." That's not to say that he would condone the act of abortion either. But he might tell some hard core "anti-choicers" to worry about the 2x4 in their own eye before performing any ocular procedures on their fellow man. Now maybe I should just take my own advice, 'cause lord knows I'm a sinner. A big sinner!
Finally, (one more time Just for Steve) just because I choose not to butt into a woman's business about whether or not she wants to bring another life into this world does not----repeat, DOES NOT--- mean I condone the act of abortion myself. Personally, I say if you don't want a kid…don't get knocked up, but accidents happen. And more often than not, it is the child who pays for its parents poor decisions down the road. I'm sorry if this makes me a sinner-- but that is the parents' deal to figure out. Not mine, not Steve's, and certainly not the government's.
In a better world, the Christian church would do less blaming & condemning and more counseling & teaching but it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find a church that feels that way. It seems dogma, politics & rhetoric have replaced faith, hope, and charity in too many congregations. But then again, what can we expect from a non-Christian nation like the USA.
Cal Thomas hit the nail on the head yesterday. America's faith might be Christianity, but our religion is capitalism.
In name of the father, the son, and the all mighty dollar….Amen.
And of course the hypocrisy of using this Christianity which he finds so distasteful as a rhetorical truncheon with which to beat anyone who disagrees with him has completely escaped our own dear, open-minded Tucker. He apparently thinks someone has appointed him referee of Christian behavior, regardless of the fact that he isn't within light-years of having any understanding of it.
First of all - Steve, thank God you're alive, everyone has been worried sick.
Secondly, let me say I am not really "ambivalent" towards the Christian church: those are Steve's words (from a past post in which he found it necessary to use my dead grandmother's name) not mine. If I did not care about the current sorry state of American Christianity, then I wouldn't let so-called "Christians" who love (pretty much exclusively) their possessions, their own self-righteousness, and pointing their fingers at gays and "baby killers" bother me so much.
Thirdly, no one has appointed me anything, but it doesn't take a whole lot to know what Jesus would think about "pushing the Palestinians into the sea." That's not to say that he would condone the act of abortion either. But he might tell some hard core "anti-choicers" to worry about the 2x4 in their own eye before performing any ocular procedures on their fellow man. Now maybe I should just take my own advice, 'cause lord knows I'm a sinner. A big sinner!
Finally, (one more time Just for Steve) just because I choose not to butt into a woman's business about whether or not she wants to bring another life into this world does not----repeat, DOES NOT--- mean I condone the act of abortion myself. Personally, I say if you don't want a kid…don't get knocked up, but accidents happen. And more often than not, it is the child who pays for its parents poor decisions down the road. I'm sorry if this makes me a sinner-- but that is the parents' deal to figure out. Not mine, not Steve's, and certainly not the government's.
In a better world, the Christian church would do less blaming & condemning and more counseling & teaching but it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find a church that feels that way. It seems dogma, politics & rhetoric have replaced faith, hope, and charity in too many congregations. But then again, what can we expect from a non-Christian nation like the USA.
Cal Thomas hit the nail on the head yesterday. America's faith might be Christianity, but our religion is capitalism.
In name of the father, the son, and the all mighty dollar….Amen.
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