I certainly have noticed I'm not getting anywhere, Jane. But I'm a feisty sort, and I don't shrink from an intellectual debate.
And in fact I think I am making headway in the point which I've tried in vain to make for these many weeks: Some people are just so sanctimonious with the moral superiority of their positions that you just know that they're not as all-fired perfect as they would have you believe. It's the intellectual dishonesty I see that draws me back again and again to point out. The idea that a social liberal would never dream of discriminating against someone is laughable. All you have to do is read what Christine has been saying for these several weeks about Christians, and you would have to assume that Christine would be horrified if she discovered that someone she had hired to work in her home turned out to be a card-carrying member of the Christian Coalition.
People are just people, and we all carry our likes and dislikes, our beliefs and causes, things important and things unimportant. I'm honest enough to admit those things in me, but it seems that I'm in the minority in freely admitting that. The thing is, it doesn't even take any bravery in this format, where everyone is just a name on a screen. Yet so many people are insistent that they always toe the politically correct line.
I find all this slightly amusing also, which is another reason I keep posting to Christine. I'm sure I'll tire of this amusement eventually, and probably sooner rather than later. It's been a real hoot anyway, a change of pace if nothing else.
You're of course absolutely right though, in your observation that to the politically correct, any religion is preferable to Christianity. The WSJ just did a story on financially successful baby-boomers sitting at the top of their career and realizing that their life still has a big void--a spiritual void. I don't bring up this story to be critical, because obviously God wants all his children to love and trust in Him. But in the story, a man said something about not wanting to be too religious during his career, for fear of being seen as a "Jesus Freak". Talk about paranoid. I'm not saying a person has to make evangelizing pitches during corporate board meetings, but to think a person would avoid church just in case it might damage their career---wow. Tells a person something about some peoples' priorities. And the boomers the story speaks of are "realizing" that their lives do have a spiritual void. To that I can only say, "Good morning. Welcome aboard".
Take care Jane,
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