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andrewduckerI just saw some mad Christian's protesting about the BBC showing Jerry Springer the Musical. One of them was waving a placard saying "Christians against Blasphemy".
This seemed remarkably obvious to me - I mean how many christian's are _for_ blasphemy.
Now, the major sign (this evening) of my senility is my inability to remember things - I'm sure there's a phrase for when part 2 of a phrase follows on so implicitly from part 1 that stating it is completely unnecessary. But I can't remember what it is.
Anyone?
This seemed remarkably obvious to me - I mean how many christian's are _for_ blasphemy.
Now, the major sign (this evening) of my senility is my inability to remember things - I'm sure there's a phrase for when part 2 of a phrase follows on so implicitly from part 1 that stating it is completely unnecessary. But I can't remember what it is.
Anyone?
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Date: 2005-01-07 10:52 pm (UTC)Blasphemy good!
Date: 2005-01-07 11:03 pm (UTC)Re: Blasphemy good!
Date: 2005-01-07 11:27 pm (UTC)Blasphemy -- I'm all for it. Gives me something to get hold of.
Seems to me that one of the reasons why a Christian would be against blasphemy is because they're not confident of their own competence in apologetics. If you believe something, you should be prepared to defend it -- and defending it doesn't mean forbiding the promulgation of an alternative view.
Both Christian and pro-free speech. I like that.
Re: Blasphemy good!
Date: 2005-01-08 12:09 am (UTC)Re: Blasphemy good!
Date: 2005-01-08 12:23 am (UTC)Certainly some of these things are sinful. But more sinful than failing to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength (a sin which we assume they're already committing)? More sinful than avarice, lust, sloth, wrath, pride, gluttony or envy? Perhaps not. So it affords me the grace of giving them the gift of forgiveness, and a hook for introducing them to what they're missing.
Re: Blasphemy good!
Date: 2005-01-08 12:25 am (UTC)I'm against people being racist, but forgiving/tolerant of it - on the grounds that I think Free Speech is more important. But I'm still against it.
Re: Blasphemy good!
Date: 2005-01-08 12:40 am (UTC)sinsymptom points to an underlying problem that can be addressed, can be fixed.Blasphemy is like that. It's a sin, yes -- but it's a symptom of something underlying, something that can be improved. Something broken in the blasphemer's relationship with God, if that's an admissable diagnosis, but also something broken in their relationship with other people. Without the blasphemy, the broken relationships would be harder to spot, harder to fix.
If I have a ministry amongst the Godless crowds amongst whom I move, it's a ministry which exercises itself by being tolerant of (amongst other things) blasphemy, being prepared to listen without judging, and being available to help people repair what's broken behind the scenes.
Blasphemy's a gift, a precious stone, a pearl that makes that irritating bit of grit easier to spot, easier to handle, easier to clear away.
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Bed now. Further discussion in the morning.
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