Reply #41: Actually, It Is They Who Have Already Set The Example... [View All]

[arwalden]

... and I have already learned from THEIR example.

I'm not so inclined to try and teach that old dog any new tricks by trying to set a "new" example. Any kind overtures and consoling gestures are certainly to be seen as a sign of weakness, and something that is to be used to their advantage. Give an inch, and they'll take a mile.

Meanwhile, the ones who are supposedly NOT our enemy, just sit idly by and say little and do little while their militant brothers and sisters in Christ continue to do their damage. But somehow, many of them have all the time in the world to nitpick and to take offense at criticism that clearly isn't intended for them.

I'm as careful as I can be to specify which group or sub-group of RW Christians are the targets of my scorn and derision. Yet to read all the outcries throughout these forums, you'd think that this was the end of Christianity!

It's clear to me that many of the most vocal "victims" perceive an attack on one subset of Christians an attack on all Christians. It often appears that in the eyes of many, even an attack on Falwell and Robertson is an attack on "all" Christians. Don't even THINK about criticizing the Pope for that's an attack on ALL Catholics. :eyes:

The only way to appease these "persecuted" Christians would be to cut them some slack? We both know that the only amount of "slack" they'll be willing to accept would be complete silence. Nothing short of my agreeing to "sit-the-fuck-down and shut-the-fuck-up" is likely to please them.