Nothing excuses the hateful, criminal behaviour of those people. They are as Christian, in my mind, as the KKK. I doubt they'd recognise Jesus if they fell over him in the driveway, and back in the day they'd have been in the front of the Pharisee line, calling for Pilate to nail that criminal to the cross.
But
to call Christians motherfuckers, to make comments like : When God filled Mary with his sticky white Holy Spirit ...
that's crude and offensive and unnecessary. It's the kind of hate speech that gets other people pilloried, just so long as the targets aren't Christians.
They are revolting people. Edwards was an idiot to get into bed with them. You cannot defend that kind of ick by pointing fingers at other icky people.
There's more than enough distasteful behaviour to go round, here. But it's ingenuous to say that because you don't like many of the people doing the criticism, that their criticism is therefore, by definiton, invalid.
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But
to call Christians motherfuckers, to make comments like : When God filled Mary with his sticky white Holy Spirit ...
that's crude and offensive and unnecessary. It's the kind of hate speech that gets other people pilloried, just so long as the targets aren't Christians.
They are revolting people. Edwards was an idiot to get into bed with them. You cannot defend that kind of ick by pointing fingers at other icky people.
There's more than enough distasteful behaviour to go round, here. But it's ingenuous to say that because you don't like many of the people doing the criticism, that their criticism is therefore, by definiton, invalid.