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You know Cronos, that was actually coherent and not condescending in the least. Why can't you do that more often?

Seriously, for the love of Christ (literally), quit trying to paint us fundamentalists as some kind of gullible fools who never think for ourselves. It's more than a little annoying and while I can only imagine what the others think, I've just about had my fill of that attitude from others who claim to be our Brothers and Sisters and you're not without blame in that matter. I agree that Camping needs to be called out for these stunts, but Camping isn't a fundamentalist despite what he claims. We fundamentalists view Camping in the same light as we view the Westboro Baptist group, as a bunch of glory seeking idiots who have attracted a crowd of people who seem to have never opened a Bible in their life.

As for jumping to the wrong conclusions about Quix though, while he does have some weird ideas, I've never had a problem understanding where he was coming from or going with a point. I'll grant you, his posting style is a little hard to follow at times, but I've always just accepted that as a character trait and kept reading, maybe I'm just weird like that.

You know Cronos, that was actually coherent and not condescending in the least. Why can't you do that more often?

Why? I encourage you to trace back posts to pre-2009 and see why. As I said, after a point when I read nothing but lies against my beliefs, what happens? I'm no saint

Let's go to your post 235 and see it through a Catholic's eyes when he reads "yet somehow unsurprising coming from a Catholic." or 252 "How very Catholic of you.", "you may be a good Catholic, but you're a lousy Christian" or your posts insinuating we are not Christian.

Any Catholic reading that will not read your message any further and will see you as a blind hater.

you accuse me of blanketing all "fundamentalists" -- where? My post 185, yes, was in bad taste "we're doomed, I tell ya, the noo date is Oct 21", but tell me where exactly do I state that ALL of "fundamentalists" are Harold Camping followers?

I see Harold Camping's predictions as showing the errors of a certain set of beliefs, but I'm not fool enough to think that his beliefs are shared by the wide range of folks

Seriously, for the love of Christ (literally), quit trying to paint us fundamentalists as some kind of gullible fools who never think for ourselves. It's more than a little annoying and while I can only imagine what the others think, I've just about had my fill of that attitude from others who claim to be our Brothers and Sisters and you're not without blame in that matter.

I don't even know what classifies or categorises a "fundamentalist" and I've not used that term, so I have no idea what you are talking about me blaming all of "you" (whoever "you" are) as being gullible fools who never think for yourselves)

I agree that Camping needs to be called out for these stunts, -- I think he's made Christianity look particularly silly but being called out -- that's between him and God.

but Camping isn't a fundamentalist despite what he claims. -- as I said, I don't even know the full boundaries of that term, so I have no idea what Camping is, beyond a guy who makes funny statements -- like Silvio Berlusconi.

As for jumping to the wrong conclusions about Quix though, while he does have some weird ideas, I've never had a problem understanding where he was coming from or going with a point. I'll grant you, his posting style is a little hard to follow at times, but I've always just accepted that as a character trait and kept reading, maybe I'm just weird like that.

The link I was referring to which had a number of varied articles and one which seemed to postulate that Jesus was an alien. Quix posted that link to links many times, but when I pointed out to him that many got the wrong idea, he did rescind it and state that he did not believe in that

We talk about basic fundamentals of belief -- for instance, are the Gospels written primarily for Jewish people and Gentiles should focus on the Pauline Epistles? I don't know Quix's exact beliefs on that, but I know what some other posters said about this YEARS after I knew them.

Some other posters, I have no idea what their beliefs are as in every one of their posts I see only an attack on either my faith or attacks on dispensationalists or whatever. If a personal says a dispensationalist "worships Israel" and doesn't tell me what THEY believe, how can I know what they believe?

And there are many like this on FR.

Finally, you said Seriously, for the love of Christ (literally), quit trying to paint us fundamentalists as some kind of gullible fools who never think for ourselves. It's more than a little annoying and while I can only imagine what the others think, I've just about had my fill of that attitude from others who claim to be our Brothers and Sisters

-- now you know how a Catholic felt for years on the Religion Forum threads. When every single article was trying to portray us as some kind of gullible fools who never think for ourselves. When people use distorted history or condescendingly thought we didn't know our bible (btw we do -- we don't agree with your own interpretation on some points, but yes, we do know our Bibles)

"It's more than a little annoying " -- and that is exactly how we feel every time some silly thread comes up and it becomes a "let's roast the Catholics" thread.

If you are getting fed up now by the Camping hoopla, then now you know how we have been feeling for so long.

YOUR response on such scores has always been a great treasure to me.

THX.

BTW, my wife used to joke about being my translator.