:chz4brnz:These are yes or no questions
I put more meat on the bone, though I'd agree they're questions that require an unambiguous answer. That's all yes or no give you. I'm giving you that and more.
Are you a pro-abort? Do you defend homos? Do you defend Islam?
Here's the relevant part of the post you should have read, again. Let's take it issue by issue.
Am I pro-abortion? It's hard for me to imagine anyone not knowing the answer to that. I've argued against it for years, won my first notice by Knight for a post on that very point which I believe made it to the POTY he compiled. But for the sake of the newbies about:
I have never supported abortion.
I can't imagine the educational lack that would produce the semblance of ambiguity in reading that answer. But if somehow the lack of "no" was really calling "never" into question (and God alone knows how) then what follows should help...assuming anything could:
Not even as an atheist. It is a fundamental violation of human right and a morally indefensible act.
Now I don't know your neighborhood, but in mine that's not how people who support a thing speak of it.
The only argument anyone could advance for it in any case would exist where a pregnancy is an immediate threat against the life of the mother, as a form of self defense. And given the right of the unborn even that's problematic.
Or, even the best argument for an exception isn't without problem.
Next up, do you defend homosexuality?
I have never supported homosexuality,
Again, a real toss up. [/sarcasm] Or, try it this way. Read both of those opening sentences, but place a "Yes," or "No," before them. See what happens.
It's a sin. I'm a Christian. I'm not going to tell anyone that it's good to sin, that it doesn't work a harm, because all sin does, which is one reason we have grace and the need for it.
Beyond that, I note the thing that some have tried to use to dishonest effect.
though I have always contended it is a purely moral choice and not one our government should be in the business of policing.
There are all sorts of sin that in our compact are ultimately between the sinner and God, not the sinner and the state.
Last batter up. Do you defend Islam? Okay, this one isn't as direct in answer and people who have a problem with unsimplified answers might struggle. I can see that. So I'll help at the outset: the answer is that I'm a Christian and as such I'm an adversary of Islam, Judaism and any other opposing world view. I attempt to be a genial and open one, and always an honest one. So I can't support or defend their orthodoxy in comparison with my faith, but my own faith requires my opposition be above board. What I've done and would do for any religion that's slandered or libeled is what I've done here.
As Christians, we don't have to lie about Islam to oppose it's tenets and teachings. In fact, distorting or approaching any other faith dishonestly damages our witness. It is that I oppose in others. There's reason enough to differ honestly and strongly. Or, as I put it in my last:
I'd defend any religion against an attack that isn't an honest and informed criticism. When people, mostly bigots like Sod or Cruc, attempt to spread misinformation about another religion instead of simply standing up for their own and distinguishing the faith of Christ from its echoes in the world it makes a sad commentary on their own lack of confidence in their faith.
