Who would have thought, that monomaniacal, irrational, obsessive, political hatred would drive someone who claims to be a Christian and to follow the way of Jesus Christ to the point where they would deny simple common courtesy to a fellow believer? Who would have thought that it would be unreasonable to ask for an apology after it’s been demonstrated that someone has been intentionally, and repeatedly telling lies about another believer? Who would’ve thought, a simple request to respect the privacy of one’s personal information, and not to share it with any third parties, would be so controversial. Open till today, I certainly wouldn’t have, but I guess we’ll see what happens when one’s sense of respect, grace, honesty, and honor get sacrificed on the altar of political hatred.
Despite all of this, I decided to reach out and once again accede to the demands. A look at history tell me this is likely a mistake, but I feel like someone needs to be an adult.
I guess we’ll see if an apology is forthcoming, and what the next excuse to delete me is.
Apparently, I’ve gotten my answer. The comment I left telling him that I had given into his demand, a comment left after I reached out to him in the manner he demanded, was deleted.
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Dan's claim of devotion to Christ is more suspect than ever before. There is little pretense by him these days that "embracing grace" has any real meaning and value beyond using it as a means by which he can frustrate those he's provoked ...a tool to deflect attention from the point, question or objection raised for which he has no legitimate, intelligent and fact-based response.
There was an article recently which pointed out that progressive christians and atheists held more beliefs in common than progressive christians had with Christians.
Anyone who would systematically lie about a fellow Christian has surrendered any pretense of following Jesus or of embracing grace. That’s not taking into account the crudity, vitriol and hatred.
“Jesus refused to say anything to Herod and he refused to give direct answers to Pilate. There are a lot of Pilates and Herods in our day, and there is no reason why we should be any more cooperative than Jesus when confronted by them.“
“we as Christians are not obligated to walk into traps. If someone asks a question like that in an insincere way, just to embarrass us, refusing to answer is perfectly legitimate. That's what Jesus did. You could say "Nope. I'm not getting into that."
The last is the perfect description of discourse with Dan. But recognizing his desire to entrap only results in deletions or some lame crap about not being a real person.
I guess thinking it’s appropriate to apologize when you’ve been wrong for such an extended period of time, done absolutely nothing to try to find out if you are right, and engaged in lies and character attacks, is just unrealistic.
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