Originally posted by FMF There is no hypocrisy on my part. It was you, after all, and not me, who was lionizing him as a Christian. It was you who started the thread on the Spirituality Forum extolling him on account of the fact he was a Jehovah's Witness, not me.
your hypocrisy lies in attempting to get some moral leverage from a musician whose music you collected and apparently listened to and which you are on public record as having described as being 'prolific'.
Originally posted by robbie carrobie wow man, what a flunkie, have you no self respect? You are the me too troll, too wussy to troll yourself you slink up to your idol FMF, man you suck!
Originally posted by robbie carrobie your hypocrisy lies in attempting to get some moral leverage from a musician whose music you collected and apparently listened to and which you are on public record as having described as being 'prolific'.
There is nothing whatsoever hypocritical in what he is saying.
You started a thread in the spirituality forum without thinking it through. Your organisation talked about "brother Prince" in a similar misconceived way, and you just picked it up and regurgitated it without a second thought. If you thought for yourself about your religious beliefs instead of simply regurgitating what you were told by your overlords you would not end up with your metaphorical underwear at your ankles on the internet so often.
Originally posted by robbie carrobie your hypocrisy lies in attempting to get some moral leverage from a musician whose music you collected and apparently listened to and which you are on public record as having described as being 'prolific'.
But I am not a Christian, robbie. While you are. And I am not celebrating the fact that Prince was a Christian. While you are.
When you were asked if his work would have been appropriate and acceptable in the eyes of his "elders" and his "brothers" at his Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall ~ you characterized this question as narrow minded moralizing.
You sought to defend him in this clumsily personalized way, bizarrely, on a thread where the very topic was his Christian principles ~ and by extension yours.
Originally posted by robbie carrobie LOL Joshua was not a Christian
He was a Jew, just like the Nazarene Yeshua, whom Christians
call the Messiah. And it is all in the Tanakh. Are you telling me
that the New Testament invalidates its foundation and there is
an "us and them" from Christians regarding Jews and the
Scriptural history and teachings?
Originally posted by Seitse I'd love to learn how to tell them from each other.
Can you provide me a list with the defining traits of real Christians, please?
Generally speaking, in these forums, "real Christians" define other "real christians" as being those who never publicaly detract from their particular form of the Christian religion no matter what is being said. It all very interesting and amusing to see these partisan cliques forming and reforming depending on who is in the out-group. Often I am in the out group and come under considerable flack from those in the in-group (including Lemon Lime) for not toeing the party line.
Originally posted by Seitse He was a Jew, just like the Nazarene Yeshua, whom Christians
call the Messiah. And it is all in the Tanakh. Are you telling me
that the New Testament invalidates its foundation and there is
an "us and them" from Christians regarding Jews and the
Scriptural history and teachings?
yes Jesus himself describes this division as a chasm!
Originally posted by robbie carrobie I think it would be almost impossible to engage in any kind of vocation for a
Christian where one holds public office or carries a firearm.
The JW hierarchy exercise strict control over their flock and what jobs they are allowed do.
As a result most of the poor benighted devils end up becoming window cleaners.
And besides all these things, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you people, so that those wanting to go over from here to you people cannot, neither may people cross over from there to us. Luke 16:26
This was given in the symbolic Rich man and Lazarus parable, the Rich man representing the religious leaders of Christ's time and Lazarus the Christians.