Bret, at the risk of unleashing another torrent of words, I don’t see any in-between in your thinking (except when it comes to your remaining in a denomination — the CRC — where less in-between thinking would be useful). Everything (minus the CRC) is either-or.
You mean kind of like the idea of he who does not gather with me scatters? You mean kind of like he who is not with me is against me?
You surely are right Darryl. I do not believe that there is such a thing as neutrality.
Don’t worry about the torrent of words. On this subject I have a vast reservoir.
And bless your Ph.D. theological heart, you keep right on with your homey jabs implying I am a hypocrite by being in the CRC. How many different times at different forums have you done that now?
You seem to be saying that the United States is as hostile to true religion as Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. How can you expect any Christian who would rather live in the United States than Iraq to take yourself seriously?
Oh fiddlesticks Darryl! While there is no doubt no such thing as neutrality, hostility certainly can come in varying degrees. Now, I surely agree that no one should take me seriously if I really were saying, the words you are trying to put in my mouth, that these United States are as bad as Iraq, but as I never said that, people are free to take me seriously.
Now, how people can take you seriously after advocating a neutral realm where theology does not reign leaves me quite flummoxed.
Also, you keep insisting that you separate church and state, but since the state administers justice and grace, and does so on the basis of administering God’s word, there does seem to be at least a measure of redundancy between church and state.
I don’t know where you get some things you keep repeating. I keep correcting and you keep repeating what I’ve corrected you on.
Ah well, that’s part of the fun of it all isn’t it?
I tell you what. You quit with your downpour of misrepresentations and I’ll quit with my torrent of words.
