Alan B marches out of the closet with St Paul carrying a rainbow flag.

Do you know what your attempt at character assassination is…it’s sacrilegiously off key Alan B!

Something I’ve noticed though when considering the gay set, their propensity for violence against others of the normal view , descends to unusually low levels!

Dan

ttbn,

I agree with you - we all need safe spaces from
intolerance. Unfortunately some people, including
Christians are quick to judge and tell others what
they're against.

We all know people who express their disapproval of
various people, groups, and sections of our society,
ranging from movies, television, books, the media,
political parties, gay people, evolutionists, atheists,
members of other religions, the values in public schools
and universities. and the list goes on.

When arguing for their versions of the truth and their
faith many Christians appear intolerant and self-righteous.
Hate and ignorance are human problems. To embrace people
does not appear easy for anybody - even the religious
amongst us who should be practicing what their religion
teaches - or in the case of Christians - what Jesus
preached.

I remember my neighbour being so proud of the fact that she
went to church every Sunday. She was the biggest gossip in
the neighbourhood and never had a nice thing to say about anybody.
So perhaps she needed to go and pray every Sunday. Although it
didn't seem to do her much good.

Canem,

<<Answer- Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living.">>

I agree.

The apostle Paul gave the road map for life: "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will" (Romans 12:2).

Foxy,

<< we all need safe spaces from intolerance. Unfortunately some people, including Christians are quick to judge and tell others what they're against.>>

Should we be truthful about telling people what Jesus said about Judgment Day? "In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead (Acts 17:30-31).

OzSpen

I understand that you believe that it is the
Christian's job to preach the gospel and to
make disciples. But as I understand it -
it is God Himself who does the converting, and
that no one can come to Christ unless the Father
draws them.

Therefore you also have to realize that not everyone
will believe and respond to your message.

And, you have to be tolerant of that.

Dear ozspen,

You seemed to have neatly sidestepped the issue of your liberal use of Hartshorne's phrase in your dissertation without any apparent citation.

Given on page 3 you signed a declaration which included the following:

“I understand what plagiarism entails and am aware of the University's policy in this regard.”

And

“I declare that this assignment is my own, original work. Where someone else's work was used (whether from a printed source, the internet or any other source) due acknowledgement was made according to departmental requirements.”

http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/50510

I'm sure you would want to clear this up.

For clarity sake you did include a single reference to Hartshorne with a web link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hartshorne/#3 but I would have thought there really should have been a direct reference to his work "Devine" where he used the phrase, especially as it was absent from your link.

As an aside you really do seem to have it in for the poor bloke John Dominic. Not only did you thoroughly attack him in your dissertation but you you have gone on to write a book accusing him of seemingly supernatural powers:

“This book examines how historical Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan has dismantled education, TV viewing (by application), and religious studies with his postmodern deconstruction of the text.”

http://scribd.com/book/569781285/How-to-Ruin-Your-Education-and-TV-Viewing-Five-Lessons-from-John-Dominic-Crossan

Perhaps we need a safe place where well respected scholars can be free from seemingly chronic criticisers.

I look forward to your hopefully informative response.

Happy Easter.