HS is a regular commenter here who is unique. He or she is a regular Bible Christian, but when I disagree with HS, HS doesn’t have a fit.
As soon as a person says his entire world view is based on God, we all stop talking to him and start humoring him. He is totally incapable of realizing that his world view is based on HIS OWN VIEW of God.
He thinks he IS God.
A person who says his entire world view is based on the Word of God is saying that he IS God, in exactly the same way that a judge who says he is “interpreting” the Constitution is saying that he IS the Constitution.
If you “interpret” the Constitution, you ARE the Constitution. If you interpret God, you ARE God. I said HS may be a he or she. It is also possible that HS is an IT.
How can a person who is convinced they represent God also be a reasonable person who can allow a heretic like me to disagree with the Voice of God? I never met a theologian like that. It is very hard to find a human who calls himself a Bible Christian who is like that.
This leads me to believe that HS is a computer. HS must be an IT.
The point of all this nonsense is to point out a fact we all know but nobody says. We are all terrified of trying to speak rationally with people who call themselves pro-lifers or Biblical Christians.
What I have just said is NOT limited to evangelical, “Bible-believing Christians. I have a cousin who is a very, very, very, very, VERY Modern United Methodist Minister. I simply cannnot get a straight answer from him.
I met with Michael Novak, the theologian of National Review, many years ago. He had written a book called The Unmeltable Ethnic, praising the conservative ethnic Catholics in America. He was the man who invented the term WASP, meaning White Protestant Anglo-Saxon. He was very famous.
I had worked in ethnic areas. I am an honorary Boston Southie. I lived in a campaign headquarters in the Polish steel district of Chicago. In most ways, they were just like us unapologetic Southerners.
Novak knew my history. So I asked him if what he called White Anglos-Saxon Protestants was really just what a Boston Southie would call a “Yankee,” a pro-busing suburban yuppie.
He said, “Yes.”
I pointed out that most of us Southerners are White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, so it was unfair to confuse us with the Yankee-type WASPs.
He said “Yes.”
It didn’t bother him in the slightest. A vicious insult to tens of millions of people would make a mere human feel guilty. But Novak is not a mere human. He is the Mouth of God.
In my opinion as a lifetime interrogator, every professional theologian I have ever met is a psychopath. The fact that Novak (Michael, not Robert) had flatly stated he was being unfair to tens of millions of Southerners was of no importance to him at all.
If Novak had said “Yankee” instead of WASP, he would not have been praised by National Review. National Review is an East Coast Catholic magazine. He told National Review and New York what they wanted to hear.
New York does not like white gentiles. National Review does not like Southerners. So Novak said what they wanted to hear.
As a theologian, it never occurred to Novak to worry about this. He is a theologian, the Voice of God Almighty.
So when one Southern redneck reminded him that he was committing a sin here, he almost laughed out loud.
My Bible says that what Novak did is a sin.
I think it’s called, “bearing false witness against thy neighbor.” But what does a ridiculous simplistic quote like that mean to a Great Theologian?
The Mouth of God is immune to illiterate, lay criticism like mine.
HS doesn’t seem to have that sort of immunity from giving a straight answer. All the people who tell me their beliefs are based on the Word of God feel that they are automatically exempted from answering any challenges from us mere humans.
But HS doesn’t.
HS has GOT to be a computer.
#1 by H.S. on 11/28/2004 - 2:17 am
You honor me, Bob.
Thank you – I would not have expected those words.
People can be cruel. When could truth not stand up to scrutiny? Jesus said, “TRY ME!” How does the saying go, “silver is refined in the fire….” Why would insignificant people like me who are daily drawn to let our world views be conformed to God’s world view have a fit with honest challenge that a God should have no problem with? Frankly, it is a pain and a pleasure (after the shock wears off) to let iron sharpen iron and find out what I don’t know, and should. It’s right to hammer out and know what you believe – with others.
It is a true and ugly shame that people who sincerely believe that they are in, possessed of, Christ refuse to DO what He plainly says, without all the interpretive dancing on the head of a pin. Picking gnats out of our lemonade while elephants are standing on our plates.
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
1) Then what and where are they?
“Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
2) Then what and who are they?
“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, “For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?”
3) This is not for the hypocrite or lost.
Jesus said, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.”
4) What word?
Trust me…. I worked for the government too, many years ago.
#2 by Richard L. Hardison on 11/28/2004 - 10:16 pm
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#3 by H.S. on 11/29/2004 - 6:38 pm
Richard,
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#4 by Bob Whitaker on 11/29/2004 - 7:32 pm
“Picking gnats out of our lemonade while elephants are standing on our plates.”
That’s GOOD!
#5 by H.S. on 11/29/2004 - 9:04 pm
Well, I would expect that. As you were keenly aware, I plagiarized and spliced it from someone who wrote it better than I long ago. Peter, out on the porch, loves lemonade too. Guess it means anyone could use it – most versions aren’t copyrighted.
“You blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you clean off the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. You blind Pharisee, clean first what is inside the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.” –Jesus
#6 by Bob Whitaker on 11/29/2004 - 9:43 pm
HS, plagiarizing and splicing is what professors call research. They get a lifetime free ride from it at public expense.
Cut the modesty. You done good.
#7 by Richard L. Hardison on 11/30/2004 - 1:54 am
Bob, your comment reminds me of a joke my high school Physics instructor learned when he was taking Russian in grad school at New Mex State. He could tell it with a pretty good faux Russky accent, and goes
I’ll never forget the day I met the great Lobachevsky on the streets of Moscow. In word he gave me the secret to success. Plagiarize, PLAGIARIZE! Let no man’s work evade your eyes. But, please, to call it research.
Lobachevsky was a mathematician, and profs in science and engineering have a very hard time living on plagiarized work. IN the falsely labeled “social” sciences (pseudo would be a better term) it happens all the time. Those morons are actually on a form of welfare. The difference between that and AFDC is they have to show up almost everyday.