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Pat Robertson says ...	Erewhon	10/20/05
You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them. -Pat Robertson ==================== Why is he right or wrong?
Clarification/Follow-up by JeffreyBryson on 10/21/05 3:30 am: Come again . . . without the isinuating remark. Clarification/Follow-up by Erewhon on 10/21/05 12:17 pm: Jeff, I might, and then again I might not. What is Robertson saying? "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. " He is saying that Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Methodists are anti-Christs. "We have seen the enemy and it is us!" Clarification/Follow-up by JeffreyBryson on 10/21/05 1:40 pm: To answer you here is to become circular. I've already given you what I believe to be the correct explanation about his words and relevant views. Clarification/Follow-up by Erewhon on 10/21/05 3:35 pm: Jeff, I didn't expect and answer from you for the last clarification I posted, because I didn't ask you a question. :) BTW - I am already circular, but my diet is working and I hope to become more linear soon.
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JeffreyBryson		10/20/05
The fact is that there is a tremendous amount of secular humanism (to use a classic label) among those three denominations- "secular" referring to that which is *based* of "the world", of course, and not in Him and His salvific message and requirement, and that focus is born not of God but of His enemy. That's Robertson's point no doubt. He makes no bones about His belief that the Christian struggle and fight is precisely against that secular bent, and He's right about that. However, there can be fine line between not being nice to antichristian views themselves and not being nice to the holders of those views. Many people don't quite get that part right and end up antagonistic against both. He's right about not being nice if one can make that distinction but not if one can't.

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