Now I have had a bit of a chance to go back through your posts, you seem to be a regular and not an idiot. But, you seem to be treading out on the fringe in this thread. Its a way to keep the thread alive but at the sacrifice of any respect someone might have gained for your opinions.
You need to offset quotes better.. its really hard to separate your quotes of others from your responses.
Sarcasm rarely works in a forum like this. You represent who you are with your words and your opinions in the context of your postings. Researching your stuff more provides a context but ultimately your stuff in this thread adds more smoke than light.
Perhaps in some other thread, we can have a more productive discussion.
You said — “Perhaps in some other thread, we can have a more productive discussion.”
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I’ll try to set off the quotes better. I just don’t want to get into putting in the HTML because that leads to everything being coded, and I don’t want to do that.
But, from what you said, perhaps in another thread, maybe. However, this does represent my thinking and how I come at these things.
Someone one time said something about “being a conservative” and I said that I don’t come at these things from a conservative viewpoint. I don’t form these opinions from that framework. I form it from what I see as mainly Biblical viewpoints. So, that may confuse people at times, being on this forum.
However, from what I clearly see, the conservative viewpoint has its *underpinnings* pretty much in the Biblical framework. It could not exist without that underpinning and also — many of the people who are here — would not be here, if it were not for their own Biblical underpinnings.
So, I responded that I found myself here because I commented on things in that kind of framework (or “worldview”) and then, I found a bunch of people “standing around beside me” — saying that they were conservatives and espoused much of the same thing...