TRINITY....... "I'm a watching you girl"..... now your on a LIST...
(the list of people to pray harder for:)

Whats this 'about as dangerous as a lettuce-leaf' huh ? grrrrr...

Seriously speaking. I'm glad you don't percieve me as dangerous in that way and I DO notice what you and Rob observe, (in some other posts) and THAT... is my worry also, and is the reason that I try to link my position to a sound interpretation of scripture, I know I'm on safe ground.

I used the illustration about how Hitler read where Jesus chased the 'merchants' out of the Temple. and interpreted it as "The Merchants were Jews, Jesus hated the Jews, lets kill them all".

But I don't ALways 'bash' with the old King James you know. (I shudder at the language, and prefer the NIV)

Sometimes we can only fight prejudice against us by showing what the reality in terms of our fundies IS..... and that often means a whack with a verse or 2 :)

The word IS more powerful than the bunch of 5s :)

We have to be caring for the likes of you and poor Garra.. you mob are heading towards the 'endangered species' category mate, ask our Deaconess Pammy Bone or Bishop Andrew Bolt :)

Yes.... I know.... nothing about topic here. But hey.. its FRIIIIIDAY.
cut a guy some slack.
Have a great weekend you and all.

Trinity, probably staying off topic however that wouldn't be a first for me. I suspect that the view about the level of viciousness might be influenced by our respective biases. I would have thought that some of those posting from the left can get rather vicious. I would find it hard to accept that the personal attacks come more from the right than the left. Thankfully most manage to move on from the nastiness at times and behave like adults.

Now an attempt to tie this back to an aspect of the topic ;)
Thankfully even amongst all of that those of who really want to engage in honest and friendly(ish) discussion can generally manage to do so. Therein lies one of the great strengths of this kind of forum. It is is giving those willing to understand and learn the opportunity to do so. It is helping us find a means to understand the other side of a debate. That is the strength of this e discussions. Can you imagine us lasting through some of the discussions we've had on this site over a cup of coffee.

R0bert

Garra “the cloak of anonymity affords them the opportunity to express the most objectionable ideas publicly, without fear of being held to account for them.”

The darn inconvenient thing about freedom of expression - we all get to say pretty much what we want, within reason. Democracy is a bitch like that – I suggest if you are not prepared to take it on the chin, like a grown up, you should avoid trying to dish it out.

Trinity “posts that have been directed towards myself and other moderates to this site being said to my face. “

– I am not sure if your aside was directed at me or not.

However, let me assure you, speaking for myself, I would not hesitate in saying whatever I post here to anyones face if such opportunity presented itself.

You may dislike what some of us have to say – as we often suffer supposed “moderate” asides too but like garra – you will simply have to get used to the idea of “freedom of speech” if you want to partake in a forum like this or accept the alternative and scurry away.

One of the best ever asides, of a less than complimentary nature, was the following

One politician to another

“Sir – may you die of the pox or the gallows”

Response

“Sir – such a choice depends on whether I embraced your mistress or your politics”.

That exchange, reportedly between The Earl of Sandwich and John Wilkes, occurred over 200 years ago - I guess some things are never going to change.