[Cronos]

You joined in 2010, now evidently you haven't seen the level of continuous harassment, ridicule and haranguing of my beliefs -- like you yourself going on with your statements that I am not Christian. You know what? in 2010 I got fed up of repeating the defensive statements and started using the same tactics as the attackers.

But I realised only by December 2010 that most of these attackers were never sharing their beliefs and when the CAtholics had left the forum, they went into the little Pre-mil, post-mil, a-mil vile threads -- I call them vile because they were the same as the threads attacking MY beliefs -- "you believe in ...., you worship Israel, you do this, this this" and you know what? that serves no Christian

For me to disagree with another Christian is one thing, but to be reduced to a hate match? What does it serve? Read your post 196 and see the level of hate you've kept

[paladin1_dcs]

Yes Cronos, I finally joined in 2010 but you have no idea how long I was lurking here, watching the bickering and squabbling before I activated my account, so yeah, I've internalized some of the aggravation and anger that built up over the years watching others attack those who I would consider a friend in the real world.

Now while I really didn't start learning who was who until I got involved, your name kept popping up in the extremely heated threads along with a few others and frankly, right or wrong, you're name became associated with those who were taking the "If you're not RCC, you're a heretic" attitude towards the others. Now, if I was wrong in that regard, then I was wrong, but that was my impression and you know as well as I do how hard impressions are to overcome.

I said all that to make this point. The reason I said that you didn't seem to be a Christian (go back to 196 and pay close attention to what I said) was because it seemed that you were enjoying your attempt to smear other Christians with a charge of gullibility and borderline heresy. I know, from first hand experience, that those who are real, honest, Spirit-filled believers don't enjoy trying to deal with false teachings, and they really don't take joy from making fun of other Christians, so can you see why I said that now? I honestly don't know why you think that fundamentalists would follow Camping, but there's not a shred of truth to that idea at all.

If you want debate, that's fine, I can handle that. If you want to know what I believe or how or even why, I can handle that, but don't just assign a belief to a group just because you think they would believe it. That's just lame.