“Israel. Modern Japan. Thailand. Taiwan. You can make a lot of generalizations about these countries, but to describe them as being a bunch of ‘savages’ is absurd.”
Fair point.
“are you seriously asserting that the entire population of agnostics, skeptics, and assorted freethinkers are cultural misfits, brutes, killers, thugs, in the mold of, say, brainwashed Muslims...? or further, are you implying that today’s practicing Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Shintoists, and for that matter everyone who had ever existed prior to the appearance of Christ in the what we record as the first century AD, are each and everyone nothing but a bunch of reprobates, apart as they are from the belief of Christ as divinity...?”
No, I can see where my assertion is very reasonably offensive to many non-Christians who are not savages.
I withdraw that comment.
While I do believe that Jesus is the Savior of the world, it is unfair to make statements which are a blanket insult to all of those who do not share my conviction.
The Christian faith asserts the need for all people to receive forgiveness for sins. Whether a person or group of people engage in savage behavior is not directly correlated to their identification as “Christian.”
Thanks for not letting that comment slide.
‘I withdraw that comment.’
which takes courage and conviction...my compliments...