Comments on: John "Asbo" Birch Does it Again http://mattritchie.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/john-asbo-birch-does-it-again/ Searching for pathways into God's new world Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:17:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mark Roques http://mattritchie.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/john-asbo-birch-does-it-again/#comment-9097 Mark Roques Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:29:05 +0000 http://mattritchie.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/john-asbo-birch-does-it-again/#comment-9097 This is funny and people really need to hear this. Rocky This is funny and people really need to hear this.

Rocky

]]> By: Jeremiah http://mattritchie.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/john-asbo-birch-does-it-again/#comment-7595 Jeremiah Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:56:43 +0000 http://mattritchie.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/john-asbo-birch-does-it-again/#comment-7595 While I see the humor and can get a little chuckle out of the comic if it is meant to show the silliness of the charicature that the world applies to Christians. However, if this is a believer making a slight at another, I find it unbecoming. One side paints the other as dullard rednecks and the other paints the other as self-deceiving fools and hypocrits (the ones who praise logic and yet gladly start ad-hominem). Both positions Christ chastized in the sermon on the mount. Methods that I see Godless atheists and pagans using as a way of dehumanizing ones opponent so that he or she need no longer be treated by the Golden Rule. Treating our family this way doesn't invite us to the same table, Christ's table, "preferring the other over ourselves", to discuss the truth of the Gospel. Our concern should be for their eternal happiness, not our smug self-rightness. While I see the humor and can get a little chuckle out of the comic if it is meant to show the silliness of the charicature that the world applies to Christians.

However, if this is a believer making a slight at another, I find it unbecoming. One side paints the other as dullard rednecks and the other paints the other as self-deceiving fools and hypocrits (the ones who praise logic and yet gladly start ad-hominem). Both positions Christ chastized in the sermon on the mount. Methods that I see Godless atheists and pagans using as a way of dehumanizing ones opponent so that he or she need no longer be treated by the Golden Rule. Treating our family this way doesn’t invite us to the same table, Christ’s table, “preferring the other over ourselves”, to discuss the truth of the Gospel. Our concern should be for their eternal happiness, not our smug self-rightness.

]]> By: Jon http://mattritchie.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/john-asbo-birch-does-it-again/#comment-7145 Jon Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:00:48 +0000 http://mattritchie.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/john-asbo-birch-does-it-again/#comment-7145 it's good stuff :) it’s good stuff :)

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