My position won't move not even an inch with regard to the fact that I think that we all are God's children regardless the fact people are christian or not. Or if they believe in God or not.

David wrote:

......what kind of world has been promoted when words are declared off limits?

one where all the crap of each one is left buried inside, to fester and hide, and what lay on top of love, trapping it inside, must be spoken, to allow the love to bust out and never die..........

Everytime I read one of your posts I feel like I just read something from Shakespeare, or Socrates, or Aristophanes.

Very poetic,....

.....and true.

Holy balls! I have seen a lot of ass kissers through the years but man! you have a bean stuck on the end of your nose.

Sorry to disapoint you tin_man.

My comments were quite sincere.

I think David often posts some of the greatest wisdom on the forum and he does it very poetically. In a very natural spiritual way.

To be perfectly honest about it I often feel that his words may very well be divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. I look forward to reading his posts.

Moreover, why would I want to artifically praise him? What would be my incentive to do that? Does he have chocolate hidden somewhere?

If he does, I swear I didn't know.

A-bra, you don't need to worry about disappointing me. I find your BS to be very humorous. Kind of like watching paint peel . Unfortunately it is like a broken record and someone needs to smack the record player to get to something new.

You're basically accusing me of being insincere with Davidben.

Why would I do such a thing?

Do you even have an imaginary motive?

My words were quite sincere.

I have no clue why you would question my sincerety to begin with.

It was a personal comment to David. I wouldn't have made the comment if it wasn't my true feelings.

I was speaking of your previous posting as BS, not your current "sincere" rear smooching.You regularly disagree with people's posted "true feelings" so you should have no problem. Do you find that you have been accusing others of being insincere?

specifically to spidey, and to whomever felt offended by my comments.
However, I think that I need to state the reasons of my comments.

First:
My position won't move not even an inch with regard to the fact that I think that we all are God's children regardless the fact people are christian or not. Or if they believe in God or not. Daddy created all of us, therefore it follows we are all His children. Furthermore, it's my duty to love all regardless, that is my Lord's command. I will be a bigot if I don't do so.
Since a little child I have been educated that way, as I have grew older through the example of wise men (such as Father Hugo) that belief has grown stronger.
I understand that my behavior sometimes does not reflect this, but what am I? Just a miserable man with a lot of sin in me, and that is reflected in my attitudes sometimes. I beg to my Lord to come into my heart, and change it. So I can become more like Him.
I get angry sometimes because as I say a lot of times christianity is used as an instrument to preach hate which as I said before I won't ever agree. Thus, I always will be against the action of using christianity to condemn others, yet not against those who do it.

SECOND:
The barrier language sometimes I use some words that probably are derogatory in English and I don't even know.
An instance is "fundie" I didn't even know that word until Abra posted it in a thread. But it sounded better than fundamentalist to me. Furthermore, it's shorter than fundamentalist, so it's easier when I have to write long statements.
So here my only sin was ignorance of the English usage.
So if at any time I sound offensive or derogatory just think about me as hispanic guy who barely spits a couple of words in English.

As a conclusion my position stands, and I will keep defending it because that is what I truely belive. However, I will try to be wiser whenever I have to choose my words.

Very truely yours,


TLW

Do you believe that because I only consider Christians who be the children of God, that I am a biggot or that I condemn others?

Spider asked:


I don't know why you would only consider Christians to be the "children of God."

If you do think this way I would wonder why, especially if you believe that God created us all.

Is this another case of a Christian that believes Christianity owns God? If so, then any tolerance of other beliefs and /or religions is just phony and not really sincere.

JB

TLW,

I'm going to assume you were trying to be sincere and heartfelt with your post.

Let me clarify some things, so that we can get this all out on the table.

Do you believe that because I only consider Christians who be the children of God, that I am a biggot or that I condemn others?

With all due repect, the only answer I have for you is that you must be percieving my posts incorrectly.

Perhaps you have preconcieved picture in your mind of what you expect I am like and you are using that figment of your imagination to block any true perceptions of me.

Or maybe you just don't like my views on religion and philosophy.

You may also be confusing my lack of respect for Spider as a religious authority with my feelings toward him as a person. I can understand that misconception. And I sympaththize with it wholeheartedly.

Same thing may be true of other people who post religious statements of authorty, or who claim to be preparing to do "battle" in the name of God.

The whole war-mongering attitude of Mediterranean religions is one of the things that convinces me that they are ungodly and unhealthy to humanity in the first place.

Where's the love?

I see more love coming from people like Davidben, than I see coming from Christian fundamentalists.

In fact, I seem more love coming from The Lonely Walker than I see coming from many other so-called "Chrisitans" who often question his interpretations of the religion.

All he's trying to do is preach brotherly love. What's wrong with that?