To jmfcst: "If I don't agree with the pastor on TV, I turn him off." (or something similar)
How is someone supposed to develop an educated opinion if he isn't willing to listen to people he disagrees with?
if depends on what they are saying. If they're on TV trying to sale the favor of God in order to get people to send in money, the only education I am going to get by continuing to watch is learning how crazy they really are.
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If you don't know about your opponents, it's nearly impossible to debate them properly.
1) i didn't know I had "opponents"
2) i don't think Pat Robertson would give anyone on this forum a chance to debate him.
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It's precisely JS's extremely large knowledge about Evangelical Christianity that gives him the moral authority
really? does it really take "extremely large knowledge about Evangelical Christianity" in order to refute idiotic statements? If someone were to state that the moon was made of cheese, I do NOT need to know the source of the statement in order to refute the statement. In any case, knowledge about a group does not equate to moral authority.
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...and ability...to criticize aspects of it with which he disagrees.
again, the ability to refute untruth come from the knowledge of truth, not knowledge of the ones spreading untruth.
For example, you yourself don't need to know anything about the identity of someone trying to tell you that 1+1=3 in order for you to dispute it.
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Instead of going on and on about his supposed "list"
supposed? dude, he has posted it. there is nothing supposed about it.
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shouldn't you be thankful that he has informed himself to such an extent?
common sense....common sense...common sense...
common sense should tell you that enumerating the faults of others is NOT spiritually profitable.
If you don't trust common sense, then spend a month listing the faults of others and see if you feel better at the end of that month. Or, better yet, do the opposite - spend a month learning to forgive and erase the failures of others and I guanatee you will feel better about yourself and won't see others as such a threat.