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• Friday, February 16, 2007 11:13 AM

  Chloe

  As for Republicans being the party of the religious... what a bunch of hogwash. Fundamentalist Christianity constitutes the single biggest attack on Christianity itself in the past century. People with the Dr. Dobson-style of faith are not true Christians. They focus completely on themselves and their own gain, without looking at serious social issues such as poverty, injustice, racism, and sexism.

  Chloe, you go on and on about your "enlightened" faith and reading of Scripture, then commit a basic sin of Christianity: judging others based on your own standards. (“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." --Matthew 7:1-2).

  You in reality know nothing about these "Dr. Dobson-style" people and condemn them based on mere caricatures. You say they are not "true Christians" (when were you given the ability to read their hearts) because they don't care about certain issues, but they could easily say you are not a "true Christian" because you don't care about issues such as sexual immorality ("For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander ..." --Matthew 15:19) or our divorce culture (“ 'I hate divorce,' says the LORD God of Israel." --Malachi 2:16).

  But of course you are one of those oh-so "smart" people who, in your own words, "read the Bible in an enlightened, allegorical, historical-critical fashion," so you don't really need to take these words seriously. Just rationalize them away as some sort of airy-fairy allegory and remain a reliably trendy Leftist.

  Re-examine your own prejudices, Chloe. I don't judge your priorities--they're all valid--so why do you judge mine?

  —Gerry
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