tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780216905224068835.post345661613644241233..comments2023-05-19T07:30:00.903-05:00Comments on Lost in the Underground: Evangelicals disdained?WordKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155725542014595709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780216905224068835.post-43501818618718953012007-05-05T17:04:00.000-05:002007-05-05T17:04:00.000-05:00Abreviations are cool. You did not invent "MG" th...Abreviations are cool. You did not invent "MG" though I cannot remember now who did. It works.<BR/><BR/>Blogroll! Yes. <BR/><BR/>I need to return the favor. I will get on that...<BR/><BR/>I dig your blog. It is really spicy. Seems almost dangerous! I certainly try to be edgy sometimes too. I have offended others with my blunt sometimes scathing rhetoric. At least others have expressed feeling offended sometimes. <BR/><BR/>I hope if that happens between us that we will continue to find grace -even if it is after the fact.<BR/><BR/>Agreement is not a requirement for visitors of my blog. I have yet to admit I was wrong on anything though. (Remember when Fletch said "it takes a big man to admit when he is wrong... I am not a big man!)<BR/><BR/>Well, anyway, I like your blog and will be back. Often.<BR/><BR/>Many blessings...Agent Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17797031158032033042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780216905224068835.post-5040321451907196992007-05-05T15:47:00.000-05:002007-05-05T15:47:00.000-05:00MG (do you mind if I use the abbreviation),Embarra...MG (do you mind if I use the abbreviation),<BR/><BR/>Embarrassed works nicely here. I like it. And it's amazing how easy it is to be labeled a liberal, isn't it? I think the problem is more with the terms liberal and conservative: who's who and what are we using for a comparison anyway?<BR/><BR/>I can understand your frustration -- particularly with the women's empowerment/abortion issue. To be opposed to abortion is not to be anti-woman, at all -- it's a shame that the two issues, while related, have been so inextricably linked with each other. It hurts the feminists. They lose people who are generally on their side over one single issue. For me, the ethical issues surrounding abortion are so very complicated that I try to avoid any blanket statements at all on the matter. I believe people of faith can be either pro-choice or pro-life in good faith. <BR/><BR/>Oh, the rednecks -- I have a long-standing love-hate relationship with them. A result of growing up a rural farm girl, I think. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the compliment and the blog suggestion. Also, would you mind if I added you to my blogroll?WordKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13155725542014595709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780216905224068835.post-19350558782174527132007-05-05T15:03:00.000-05:002007-05-05T15:03:00.000-05:00I too am embarrassed (my word not yours but it see...I too am embarrassed (my word not yours but it seems to fit) by my Christian brother AND sisters much of the time. In fact, I actually FEEL rather lonely as a believer amid my own beliefs and opinions quite often. But those pesky fundamentalists give all the rest of us a bad name way too often. And sometimes I want to join those who seem against church and faith just so I can find better company!<BR/><BR/>All that said, there are loopholes all through it at the same time. I actually am quite conservative in my faith. I don't plan on changing that. That does not mean I disagree with your post at all. I try to be a thoughtful believer who is willing to consider other sides of the coin. When in doubt, I tend to keep my position until compelled to change. And yet, there are PLENTY from my faith tradtion who would eagerly color me as LIBERAL with all caps! and write me off as a nonbeliever.<BR/><BR/>I am for woman power etc. (Not for abortion, but where the two do not conflict definitely for empowerment and enrichment of women.) I am okay with instrumental music in worship. I like to eat potluck in the church building. I fellowship Baptists, Methodists, Pentacostals, numerous variations as well as Anglicans and even Catholics. (Struggle with them, but fellowship them all the same!) <BR/><BR/>For me being a "N -word" lover is not a problem. Loving rednecks is. And yet, I see that as the rub really. And to unpack that (yes I realize your post only touched on race and did not really address the issues therein) is to open up too many angles of discussion to pursue here. To love rednecks means, effectively, to love all white people, but that in turn does not mean all white people are rednecks. It also does not require me to hate people of color, though the rednecks would (typically) prefer it.<BR/><BR/>These things are complicated. and That is basically my point in response. And you have tackled a complicated issue here. I think you have done a fine job of it too, btw.<BR/><BR/>Posts like this make me think you should check out Nate Bostians blog. I think you would like his stuff. I suspect he would like yours too. I have not mastered creating links here, but you can find his blog at:<BR/><BR/>http://natebostian.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>I cannot remember now when it was last year that he posted on how TBN and TV Christians tend to embarrass him, but he did a fine job of exorcizing these demons too. And he wound up being pretty generous with the TV folx with the stupid hair and all that crap.<BR/><BR/>I hope you will check him out. Tell him I sent you.<BR/><BR/>Many blessings...<BR/><BR/>Jesus is Lord!Agent Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17797031158032033042noreply@blogger.com