It is you and the others here who take this issue and apply it to all Christians.
The part in bold where you apply this behavior to
me is proof that you are creating an alternate reality that doesn't exist so that you can feel justified in engaging in bad behaviors.
Because to include me in that list based on the sole comment of "I bet they use chopsticks" is
only possible if one has went out of their way to cocoon themselves in an alternate vision.
What I am doing is showing how easily such a silly notion can be taken by those same people and reversed back at yourselves.
This is further proof of false assumptions in order to justify hyporicy. I've noticed this penchant for false assumptions in many modern conservatives and my theory is that it is due to the victim-mentality that has infested the conservative movement over the last decade or so.
My theory is that this culture of victimization which has infested the right is exacerbated by the media punditsw who cry out about the "War on Christmas" and other such nonsense to cultivate the anger and fear of their demographic audience so that can utilize that which they bitch about from the left as a way to influence public opinion. I mean, nobody is a bigger poster-boy for the victim-mentality right now than Glen Beck is.
But sadly, the culture of victimization is so prevelant in the modern conservative movement that whenever one criticizes a conservative pundit or presents a legitimate argumetn for small government politics that doesn't fall in line with the dogmatic "conservative" principles that are often far from small-government in nature, they get labeled as the "enemy". Then the "enemy" gets labelled as people who are
attacking your way of life.
There was a time when conservativism was about taking personal reponsibility.
That idea remains cornerstone of
my political beliefs, but of course that also puts me at odds with many modern conservatives who have forsaken that idea.
This means that when I want to denounce a position taken by someone, I will present an
argument against their position (as I am doing right now) instead of merely engaging in the
same tactics I am
supposedly denouncing. That's because I take personal responsibility for my
own actions.
To give an example of someone
actually doing this
conservative type of action, see the Angry American's comment in post #8.
I saw no need to add to what was already so succinctly stated by him.
What you added to the conversation, triggering
our discussion, was simply victim-mentality nonsense and did not do what Angry American did so well.
As CC has pointed out, already, you were operating under flawed assumptions. I am merely stating my thoeries on where these flawed assumptions stem from.
That's false because my explanation of such bad behavior is not bad behavior itself. This reveals another failed notion exclusive to you: You make it seem as though anyone stating the foolishness of certain notions are somehow "justifying it with their own bad behavior."
Perhaps you
think that saying "Although, there are many instances of select liberals doing vastly stupid things, like blowing children up on an EcoFascist liberal campaign ad by "10:10." But yeah, everything's game here. " is stating th efollishness of the notions, but that would be incorrect. That is
engaging in the same foolishness.
Read Angry American's post.
That is stating the foolishness of a notion. Now compare it to what you said.
In no
legitimate reality are the two statements comparable in nature.
can we not just laugh at the scenario at hand and not apply it to a whole group
Most peopel
were just laughing at the scenario. I know I was. The two posters I know to be evangelical Christians in this thread were.
Can we not do this without someone injecting partisan victim-mentality garbage into the discussion?
Consider it, please.