I lied. I'm prone to do that, you know. One more:

This is a tee-pee for you to pee-pee not a wig-wam to beat your tom-tom.

Sigh...

saw a birdie in the snow
it had a broken wing and couldn't go
I lured it closer with some bread
and crushed it's tiny f****ing head

Shovel, you been taking pages out of my book, posting 5 posts one after another! Is my senility catching

In a related story, the Vatican today released its 10 Commandments for Drivers.

"It called for drivers to obey speed limits and to exercise a host of Christian virtues: charity to fellow drivers, prudence on the roads, hope of arriving safely and justice in the event of crashes." 1. You shall not kill. 2. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm. 3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events. 4. Be charitable and help your neighbor in need, especially victims of accidents. 5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin. 6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so. 7. Support the families of accident victims. 8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness. 9. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party. 10. Feel responsible toward others.

because.....as a follower of Christ he says NOT to that's why.  

At the Sermon on the Mount he said whosoever shall say to his brother "empty head" shall be in danger of the council and whosoever shall call him a "fool" is in danger of hell fire.

Basically he was saying all this name calling reveals what's in the heart. Out of the heart the mouth speaks. It's heartitude that gets us into trouble.

And everywhere else all thru scripture we're to encourage each other, not tear each other down. We're not supposed to be Christian cannibals.

Besides, unless you know them you can only ASSUME they were Christians because you can't really know for sure.



I agree with this....we're Christians, not Perfectionists. It's a battle between flesh and spirit when we misbehave.

Bingo! Big difference between claiming to be one and actually being one.

Had KFC not been so quick to get all defensive she would have caught that herself.

Shovel :

oooooh Stop....defensive my foot!

look at your title........and then you said this:







What am I supposed to think huh? If they're not atheists...they must be Christians right? I don't think I'm way off here Mason....just because you used the word "supposed" in one spot doesn't quite let you off the hook my friend.

And I did say something similar as the Doc did when I said just because a kid writes "bomb" on the wall doesn't make him the unabomber. But your reply to me led me to believe you meant to hurt Christians here.

I think you have a valid point in bringing this whole thing up but not quite the way you did..if you know what I mean.

Well, then, Mason's the least of your worries. Which is worse, a person who bashes "supposed" Christians for their car ornaments or a person who bears false witness against someone, runs them out of church and tries to have their children taken away.

I'll take 1,000 Masons over ONE of these Southern Baptists down here (don't know how different they are in YOUR neck of the woods).

since we're NE...we have very few SB groups up here. The ones we do have, are very good. So while I've heard alot of surprising and sad stories about the SB missionaries of late, I have not with the churches.

It just goes to show you have some bad apples in every barrel. Even Paul in his day was having these types of struggles so we shouldn't be surprised. Many start off ok, but then fall away or just plain go bad. I guess it's the whole wheat and tares thing Jesus spoke of.

Hook? That's laughable.

Yes, I did follow up your initial overly defensive post with some comments deliberately intended to egg you on as you had obviously totally missed the subtle aspects of my original post. Perhaps you should read the very first sentence again.



Yes, you did, but you just couldn't stop with making that simple point but instead had to launch yourself into a flurry of defensiveness which prompted my later replies as, I'll say it yet again, you totally missed the point of the article.



I'll make my points in the manner in which I most see fit if you know what I mean.

Gotta love some folks ideas about "the fruits of the Spirit" eh? That's a whole other group of supposedly good, upright Christians I have real problems with. Nothing like the corruption of man to turn something good into something that stinks of week old dead fish.

Jesus Saves.

Hmmm...just two words scribbled on a men's room wall to cause such a commotion! Seems religion has a way of doing that, eh?   

Yep.

I have often come to that same conclusion regarding some people.

How come Jews never get to write on bathroom walls?