Listen Nutter, just because you aren't linguistically tuned enough to discern when one is being serious about a phrase like "you always..." or when it is being used as a rhetorical device, doesn't mean that you should demand conformity of others to your incipient preferences. Nor does it mean that I have made any folly, and you certainly haven't exposed one.
Once again, your opinions of what are sloppy, rants, and even embarrassment for that matter are confined to your little world, and that world only. If you are going to bring them to a public message board, then understand that they are only going to be as considered as the consideration you give others', which from what I'm seeing, is not much at all. Oh and as for mistakes, you have not admitted to yours, that is what makes us so different after all.
You fail to understand that some don't stop with just a verbal threat, but I didn't think you would because you also failed to contemplate the threat in the first place. Fiction doesn't hurt, but a brick hurled by a completely deluded person who cannot differentiate fiction from fact does. While that fortunately cannot happen here, it still is disheartening to know that the attitudes behind such violent acts ARE hurled. You might not throw a brick at me (I say that hesitantly) but your attitude that saturates your responses is a festering breeding ground for those who may be a bit less restrained than you, and it only encourages them. Let's please not get into how people of faith have justified the slaughtering of others simply because they reject the faith-heads' beliefs. Seriously, don't respond to me concerning this, if you have a question on it, go read a book about it.
It is only not issued by the speaker because they know they can't get away with directly condemning someone to hell. So they do the next best thing, "My God condemns you to hell.", or "You have condemned yourself to hell," which is the same thing in sheep's clothing. I don't understand how these threats--which is what they are--are not personal, especially how the "consequences" include an individuals very "soul" in an eternal torment of unimaginable anguish.
Q.E.D.
I'll take this as a perfectly demonstrated microcosm of my point. I don't think I need to note that the first verse insinuates that if you do not believe, then you are condemned. And if that went unnoticed, then the threat would certainly be detected in the second verse where it says that the wrath of God abideth on him/her. So you present these threats, and then in a pseudo-tolerant and ingratiating manner, you remark, "Of course you can choose to believe it or not." You say this as if I chose not to believe it, that would be the end of it. In your opinion, it clearly isn't; you believe that if I choose to reject this, then I will pay for it with my ever-boiling skin and ever-gnashing teeth in a lake of fire which is fueled by my own sins. I do regard this is as completely absurd and fictitious conjures by intolerant people much like yourself, and I will gladly spend a summer discussing it because as you've just demonstrated to me and everyone reading that you yourself, the one doing the condemning, is completely oblivious to it's absurdity and your own hostile tone. This is a problem which results in much unnecessary schisms, hostilities, and even deaths and if I can but get you or anyone else to see just how insensitive, un-loving, cruel, ungrounded, masochistic, insidious, intemperate, strident, and immoral what you promote is, then my time is well spent.
Perhaps it is you who should, what is it you so pompously say, ah, "Govern thyself accordingly."
I'll go ahead and say this now, for all your hypocritical accusations of "soiling up" threads, our duel of insults is doing just that to this thread. I recommend we stop it, as it is obviously not going to get anywhere, nor is it contributing anything of value to anything. We could go back and forth for pages and pages, but I think it would be best if we didn't.
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