anti-witchcraft

[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Terry James" 
<terryljames at h...> wrote:
 
> I've said it before and I'll say it again--"real" Christians don't 
> hate people.  By "real" I mean people who are actually sincerely 
> trying to follow the teachings of Christ, not just people who 
> believe that he existed and go to church every once in a 
> while.  "Real" Christians don't hate witches, homosexuals, black 
> people if they're white, white people if they're black, 
> Democrats, welfare moms, deadbeat dads, or any of the other groups 
> that they are constantly accused of bashing.  "Real" Christians 
> honestly try to treat everyone the same.

As much as I agree with many of the things you say above, it's worth 
noting that it is very dicey in a forum of this nature to claim to 
know how to define "real" Christians, "real" Jews, "real" 
Catholics, "real" vegetarians, "real" anything.  Please qualify your 
opinions.  What you seem to be saying is that as far as you are 
concerned this is what it means to be a Christian, etc. etc.  My 
husband and I have to deal all of the time with people who believe 
they are the "real" Christians, Presbyterians, Methodists, 
Americans, etc.  You name it.  (You might be interested in going to 
our organizational website at http://iwgonline.org .)  Most of them, 
if not all, when stating their explicit beliefs, are of the opposite 
opinion from you on nearly everything you have listed above.

Suffice to say that loads of people consider themselves to be "real" 
Christians while not subscribing to all of the things you mention, 
and it is their right to do so just as it is your right to do so.  
But please find a different way to put an opinion of this sort on 
this list, such as, "To me, being a Christian means..."  That is 
clearly your opinion.  To state that a "real" Christian is a person 
holding a certain set of beliefs is to state an opinion as if it is 
a fact, something which we prefer people not to do either on the 
main list or here.

The next thing you know, people will be trying to define a "real"  
HP fan...Ooh, trouble. <g>

Thanks for understanding.

--Barb AKA Babsgeist

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