AEON said:
As someone who believes you are either with Christ or against Him - I don't see this as a false dichotomy. One could argue that Paris doesn't represent the extreme opposite of Christ, and perhaps there are better examples of that ideal opposite - but she does represent much of what Christ was against (worldliness).
I don't see why Pelosi's statement bothers you so much. It makes decent sense for a one liner.
You don't see, that is clear. My attitude is (figuratively) one of fuck you, really. It's a generic attitude to most of you conservative types. Let me spell it out very clearly why. For starters, you don't have a literal clue who I am or what I am. You sum me (figuratively) up based on
one thing - belief in Jesus. It is this, this
one thing, which paints me, in your eyes, as, let me guess here: lacking morals? A sense of loyalty and duty to something bigger than myself? Someone who is tainted and one day going to succumb (if I haven't already) to evil and Satan himself? You see me as a Paris Hilton. Literally, someone you do not know, either. I don't know her. Perhaps being likened to her is not a bad thing - I do not know. I do know she has been painted with a brush which leaves everyone assuming she is cheap, stupid, vacuous, etc. I don't need to go on. She must lack soul. Look at how she dresses. Speaking of which, let me remind this forum of a very famous quote from the now departed nbcrusader when he and I discussed a girl dressed in fishnets walking in to his church. I asked him how he would respond to that. He replied he would think of her "as she deserved." Beautiful. I suspect you are not grasping a word of this, and granted, I waffle. Still, let's continue. So; we have me as everything which is wrong with humankind and society. I am not with Jesus, right? Therefore I must be all these things as you can only be one or the other. Let me state this next part as clearly as I possibly can. Bullshit. Did you get that? Let me repeat it: Bullshit. Let me state my faith for you. I have my faith in humankind. In people. The world we live in. These ideas are all so much bigger than me. I've done charity and dedicated hours of time and myself to things which are so much bigger than me. I give. I understand, without Jesus, right and wrong and the difference between. I can see evil, and I can avoid it. I see beauty and horror in everything around us. I am not ignorant. I am not naive. I am
not without a moral compass. I am
not without guidance. I have fed the poor, literally, AEON. I have assisted those less able. I give. Continually. I care and have cried over it, too. I do not need Jesus to do this. I already have done it so far without him. Speaking of the man himself, though. I've gone looking. Searched, actually. Wondered what you were all talking about for years now, but never found him. I walk into church and feel nothing. Try a new church. Nothing. No one is there. I've actually been going to a church with a friend a bit lately. Like all of them, this one is again different, and I do like it. But there is no one there, either. I've asked and not received. And then asked again. This is irrelevant, though. You still don't know me and me being this does not change the
fact that I am not a "Paris Hilton".
To suggest that line and what you believe makes decent sense is an insult to who I am and an insult to what I do and believe.
