All this does is piss people off and make others who love their freedom think down upon these others who maybe, just maybe have stricken consciences which cannot do what you do and do it in faith and thus would do it in sin.

I’ll probably sound very fundamentalistic in saying this, but I don’t find in the Bible anything near the spirit or temper of this posting.

If someone can only only drink Welches rather than have their consciences destroyed then fine, they have only one Master to answer to. But it is not necessary to castigate your brothers and sisters faith this way.

I’ll grant that there are very many articulate spokesman advocating the reasonableness of their own leanings regarding alchohol, media, luxury and money, and it is good to hear them, both liberal and fundamentalistic, strong and weak, but ultimately each is of us answerable to our Master, and as Paul tells us,
“Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.”
(Rom 14:3-4 ESV)

grace and peace,
Kelty

When I teach literature, we spend a week on the literature of humor. The focus is on why humor is an effective medium. As many writers have aptly demonstrated, humor allows humans to see SYMPATHETICALLY truth they may refuse to see otherwise.

Humor can be gentle, or it can be mean spirited. If you find this mean spirited, I’m sorry. It isn’t.

I am not the one to make a case for the good or bad in my writing, but I certainly could have written a much different Direct Hit on the foibles of fundamentalism.

And if you think Jesus never used this method- and with much more bluntness- read Matthew 23.

Thanks for reading and responding.

I guess I’m not as fundamentalist as I thought since that line gave me a good laugh!

Though I find it darkly hillarious that the word “fundamentalism” was originally coined in order to describe a movement towards a clear definition of the minimal fundamentals of the faith in the interests of inclusivity. I guess we can chalk that one up to Lewis’ Invernal Linguistic Department (from The Screwtape Letters).

Read it again, then. The Lord Himself uses derision against His enemies (Psalm 2:4). Read the part about Elijah on Mt. Carmel, too.

People who love truth aren’t wimps. If the targets of Michael’s humor can’t take _this_ much needling, they need to turn in their credentials as fundamentalists.

can we have a Van Til interview once a month?

but up paypal…i’m donating

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