tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8801893.post113844568889913963..comments2023-10-30T14:20:34.985+00:00Comments on Lost Empires, Living Tribes: how not to engage in conversationMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16092536218023340873noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8801893.post-1138742519480223752006-01-31T21:21:00.000+00:002006-01-31T21:21:00.000+00:00Actually, the article I read finished "this is all...Actually, the article I read finished "this is all just gay." So perhaps we are reading a different article - or, as I suspect from my own vast* experience of writing - there is absolutley NO accounting for how people will interpret what you say. Which is why politicians end up sounding so bland once their views and comments have been put through the "non-regional accent" of non-nuanced, non-offence.<BR/>*I appreciate that the sarcasm I've employed here will not translate and come accross as conceited. The light hearted humour of my tone will also, to some, transcend online to a vitriolic hatred, to others an irresponsible inability to grasp the enormous world-ending gravity of the discussion. This is just lesbian.Leonard Basthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17613480030423515928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8801893.post-1138742208601829482006-01-31T21:16:00.000+00:002006-01-31T21:16:00.000+00:00I must have read a different article. But it did e...I must have read a different article. But it did end with "...all this is just gay?" which I thought was a fun, playful self-referential use of the word to underline a complete lack of him being a homosexualist.Leonard Basthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17613480030423515928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8801893.post-1138630633554559632006-01-30T14:17:00.000+00:002006-01-30T14:17:00.000+00:00"...all this is just gay"?You can't tell me the ma..."...all this is just gay"?<BR/><BR/>You can't tell me the man doesn't hate homosexuals.Kylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14641068117855718120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8801893.post-1138618473267462792006-01-30T10:54:00.000+00:002006-01-30T10:54:00.000+00:00thanks guys for your comments. Chris, I am not com...thanks guys for your comments. Chris, I am not commenting at all on the rightness or wrongness of Driscoll's position. That's another (huge) conversation altogether. what i am objecting strongly to is his attitude, his lack of love, graciousness, and respect, for other Christian brothers and sisters who are wrestling with some very important questions with honesty and integrity. To make fun of and belittle people in the way Driscoll does in his article is just not on. Remember - it's not just about being right: even if Driscoll's position is right it's possible to be right in the wrong way.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092536218023340873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8801893.post-1138616944504105012006-01-30T10:29:00.000+00:002006-01-30T10:29:00.000+00:00Matt, I'm really surprised at your 'take' on this....Matt, I'm really surprised at your 'take' on this. Here's a pastor doing what we're actually meant to do - accepting people of all lifestyle preference, letting people find the Lord through community, to belong, believe and behave - who's saying "God says homo stuff is wrong" but "he loves you and accepts you just as you are but too much to let you stay as you are", and is understandably blowing off steam at evangelicals inability to marry these two ideas, in a playful tone. You come across as oddly prudish. I didn't see anything hateful in this at all and think he's used any leadership influence to great effect. Go Mars, you rock!Leonard Basthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17613480030423515928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8801893.post-1138614377960648812006-01-30T09:46:00.000+00:002006-01-30T09:46:00.000+00:00Scary stuff Matt, thanks for pointing it out - I'v...Scary stuff Matt, thanks for pointing it out - I've added my comment to the list too, though I think it's pending.<BR/><BR/>Frankly I'm mortified, gutted, angry that someone in such an influentual position can communicate in such a way with such hatred. It really makes me so ashamed of my faith.<BR/><BR/>:(Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06339086066874691226noreply@blogger.com