Taking you off ignore for just a moment here because I anticipated that would be the first leftist response, and that it would come from you whether or not I'd named you.
Rather ironic given how you make sweeping and ill thought out judgments on anyone who doesn't veer to the far right on here. I wonder if the irony even registers...
There is no hypocrisy or irony here. That you think you see it shows once more what a shallow thinker you are.
The big difference between us is that I do not mark you as bad because you're a Leftist. While I do absolutely consider you to be EVIL...as you also consider me to be evil...you are not evil
because you're a Leftist, anti-Bible, pro-homosexual or anything else. Those are evil groupings but belonging to them is not what MAKES you evil. They are not WHY you are evil. So I do not consider you or anyone else evil because you are BADGROUP.
Just the opposite: you are all of those things because
you -- the individual -- are evil. You love sin. You love it in others. You hate righteousness as it is defined by God. You despise the cross of Christ, which was for you. So everything else about you, including your political and social affiliations, flows from
that...from your love of sin. THAT is why you are evil. THAT is what caused you to gravitate to the Left, which loves sin and celebrates and rewards iniquity in many forms.
So you have it exactly backwards. In my view, your political and social affiliations are only symptoms of that innate personal evil which (make no mistake) ALL of us are born with.
And make no mistake here, either: there are MANY evil individuals on the Right, but that discussion would be wasted on you since you believe just being on the Right is by itself enough to make one BADGROUP. So I won't bother explaining it to you.
Anyway, your evil is why the more a person holds to the authority of the Word of God alone, as relatively few of us on TOL do, the more you despise and hate them, the more antagonistic you are toward them. On the other hand, the more "liberalized" their "Christianity" is, the better you're able to get along with them.
Water always seeks its own level.
Do not lie about this, we've watched you long enough to know better: to you we are BADGROUP. No one in BADGROUP can have enough redeeming
individual qualities to remove him or her from BADGROUP.
So to sum up: to me, you are evil because you yourself are evil, as all men are without Christ; yes, even as I once was.
But to you, I am evil simply because of what I believe. That alone makes me BADGROUP. That I'm on the Right only makes it worse but proclaiming Christ is enough to earn your antagonism and despising. Do not attempt to lie about that. We know you.
One last thing.
Note carefully, Artie, that none of the above dehumanizes you in any way. Indeed, you are a member of BADGROUP but that group is called mankind, the sons of Adam. We're ALL born into that bad group. No, you are VERY human. You are very much an individual, but it is as an individual that you will stand before God to be judged, lest you repent [change your mind]. There's hope for you yet. I strongly suspect you will die refusing to do so but it's happened before.
On the other hand, the only way you would ever extend the same courtesy to one of us is if we publicly renounce Christ and Him crucified for our sins. To you, that's the only hope of redeeming us. Because you know that about us, nothing else we can do will remove us from BADGROUP.
back on ignore
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