@Mik said in Scotland is no longer a free country.:
And a papist to boot.
Just showing Mel Gibson is a TRUE SCOTSMAN!
@Mik said in Scotland is no longer a free country.:
And a papist to boot.
Just showing Mel Gibson is a TRUE SCOTSMAN!
So, I showed this YouTube to my wife and she said that if I ever smoked a pipe in the house the next smoke I'd have in my lungs would be from a running car in a closed garage. (Kidding, I hope.)
I'd like to have a room like that, too.
Hmmm, I consider myself something of an expert on such things and I find no plagiarism here.
Only the good die young.
Hi!
@Jolly said in Dewey's post:
@Tom-K said in Dewey's post:
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
He wasn't really a religious person at all; the whole subject only mattered to him insofar as it bolstered his extreme right-wing politics.
One of the little peccadillos of (some/many) Protestants is to step into the shoes of God Almighty and declare judgement on some other Protestants that arenât in full theological agreement as âunsavedâ and âunbelieving.â This may be the case with Dewey here. I didnât follow the Larry-Dewey wars all that closely but Iâm sure Larry had a similar pronouncement. (As a Catholic I donât get into these internecine arguments and actually the one thing that just about all these Protestants agree on is that Catholics are âunsavedâ and âunbelieving.â) Anyway, I do take issue here with Deweyâs appraisal. I remember when Wacky Iraqi was on the board and had terminal cancer Larry stopped his usual harangue, changed his whole demeanor, and tried to convert Wacky to the Gospel and save his soul before he died. It is exactly what Christians are supposed to do. Larry really impressed me by how he took his faith and Wackyâs salvation so seriously. It didnât even occur to me to do something similar. And not that I would have even if it did. But Larry did it and that would be a Christian.
Well, thereâs that. As to the tone of Deweyâs missiveâDewey was butt hurt by Larry and heâs just expressing what he feels. Larry, Iâm sure would do something similar is the shoe was on the other foot. Next door the people there are pretty much dancing on Larryâs grave. They were sometimes on the wrong end of Larryâs personal invectives and are venting. The gleefulness is a bit troubling, but that is the sandbox we all play in. But those over there tend to see the mote in Larryâs eye and not see the plank in their ownâright from the beginning they expected to lecture the poor conservatives on the error of our ways with equal measures of condescension and pity and they expected us acquiesce to their wisdom, but instead to their surprise they got one hell of a fight. All good.
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.Missing your target a bit.
Most protestants don't think Catholics are unsaved or unbelieving. We do reject sacerdotalism and don't understand how y'all got so hung up on that Mary thing. And we'll just mark that building the Church on Peter idea, down to a reading comprehension problem.
As for protestant vs. protestant, most don't sweat the small stuff. I don't care if Pentecostals believe they need to speak in tongues, or Baptists abhor taking an alcoholic drink, etc. Where I do have a problem with any Christian or somebody who identifies as Christian, is when they portray something irrefutably sinful as being okey-dokey. It just doesn't work that way.
And be we whatever shade of Christianity, those pastoral letters still apply to the leadership of the church. The clergy is held to a higher standard. They don't always meet it, but they must strive to do so.
I can't agree with you more, other than the part about who has the reading comprehension problem.
I believe hemeoglobin is blood that has been coagulated into big globs.
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
He wasn't really a religious person at all; the whole subject only mattered to him insofar as it bolstered his extreme right-wing politics.
One of the little peccadillos of (some/many) Protestants is to step into the shoes of God Almighty and declare judgement on some other Protestants that arenât in full theological agreement as âunsavedâ and âunbelieving.â This may be the case with Dewey here. I didnât follow the Larry-Dewey wars all that closely but Iâm sure Larry had a similar pronouncement. (As a Catholic I donât get into these internecine arguments and actually the one thing that just about all these Protestants agree on is that Catholics are âunsavedâ and âunbelieving.â) Anyway, I do take issue here with Deweyâs appraisal. I remember when Wacky Iraqi was on the board and had terminal cancer Larry stopped his usual harangue, changed his whole demeanor, and tried to convert Wacky to the Gospel and save his soul before he died. It is exactly what Christians are supposed to do. Larry really impressed me by how he took his faith and Wackyâs salvation so seriously. It didnât even occur to me to do something similar. And not that I would have even if it did. But Larry did it and that would be a Christian.
Well, thereâs that. As to the tone of Deweyâs missiveâDewey was butt hurt by Larry and heâs just expressing what he feels. Larry, Iâm sure would do something similar is the shoe was on the other foot. Next door the people there are pretty much dancing on Larryâs grave. They were sometimes on the wrong end of Larryâs personal invectives and are venting. The gleefulness is a bit troubling, but that is the sandbox we all play in. But those over there tend to see the mote in Larryâs eye and not see the plank in their ownâright from the beginning they expected to lecture the poor conservatives on the error of our ways with equal measures of condescension and pity and they expected us acquiesce to their wisdom, but instead to their surprise they got one hell of a fight. All good.
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.
Thank you Jolly and it's nice to say hello. We've all kind of grown up a bit together.
I can't help but thinking of Larry up in heaven meeting God and finding out (by some off chance) that God's not a Dyed in the Wool, Blood of the Lamb, Baptist and then Larry sitting God down and quoting Him KJV chapter and verse explaining to God's why He's mistaken and why He should repent of his wrongful ways. That would be Larry.
Larry was the last of the great internet warriors. I'm sad to see heâs gone. He was always faithful to himself and to the things and ideas he believed to be true. A lot of us have softened over the years, but Larry never did.
Larry was kind and loving in real life but he took his job on the internet in all seriousness. There were times I got along with him and times I didnât, but I always appreciated him.
May God welcome him into His arms.