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To: Glenmerle
People like this think being Christian means being "nice" and "unoffensive." You've got to wonder if they've ever picked up a Bible.

1. Kenny is in "Catholic recovery" and loosely based the family in "Daniel" on his gay lover's family. For a gay man who uses Jesus as a plot device to start defining what is and isn't Christian is like Howard Dean deciding who gets to work at the Heritage Foundation.

2. Kenny also appears to believe that writing a letter to a business and asking them to change their product mix is something that both Christ and the Founders would look down on. Somehow, I don't think so.

3. I concur with your assessment. To be a Christian means to love Christ, and we are obligated to love our fellow Christians as well. Kenny took a leak on Christ and on my brothers and sisters, but it's unChristian for me to say that's out of line? Sorry, not buying it.

The sad thing is, they think they're the smart ones and we're just easily-duped rubes.

77 posted on 01/24/2006 10:33:02 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Given the subject matter, shouldn't Heath Ledger get a Best Actress nomination?--Rambette)
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To: Mr. Silverback
Christ never damnned people as being without worth, but he did judge the Sin that men do. We should judge the fruits of men's hearts, their deeds. I can't condemn a living man; he may yet change, alter, shift, and learn of Christ's love before he dies. But I can, and should, judge his fruits...is he loving, kind, good, gentle, praiseful, peace-bringing, joyful, and encouraging? Does he love others (philos or agape, thanks) and help where he can? Does he respect and love God, and give credit to Jesus for his salvation? That's how we are to judge.

"Judge not, lest ye be judged" was directed at the Pharasees, who were going to stone a woman to death for adultery, which each of them had probably committed in their hearts when pretty young things went by on the street. The message is not that we shouldn't judge the actions of men...it is that we should judge in the way that Christ does, and not the way that men do. We should call out sin as sin, as Christ did. But we should do it with the kind of Agape love that wants the best for the person whom we course-correct, as we would want to be lovingly re-directed by others (such as Christ!)

108 posted on 01/24/2006 11:45:26 AM PST by 50sDad (It's not "diversity" for you to steal my Christmas.)
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