Re: Unusual Shirt
Michael, on host 66.21.46.190
Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 09:42:09
Re: Unusual Shirt posted by Mousie on Friday, January 30, 2004, at 10:54:38:
> Like I said, we could probably do this all day, but justifying drinking isn't really my point. My point is that the bible doesn't wholly condemn drinking, nor does anything anywhere leave judgement up to us. There is nothing that will turn me personally away from Christian rhetoric faster than those who spout it and use it to judge, especially those who have no experience whatsoever with what they are judging. > > Besides, it's just a T-shirt, d00d! Can you think of a more passive aggressive attention getter? > > I'm just sayin. > Moush
Yeah. I shouldn't be so confrontational, I guess. Didn't mean to start an argument. Well, okay. Yes, I did. This forum can use a little arguement now and again, as long as we're civil. And you'll note that no one has resorted to "d00dz!!!!1 u 4ll 5uXxX00rz!!!!!~" And, beside that, although I feel that drinking for any reason aside from medicinal is unwise, as I don't like the taste of alcohol and so would never drink for pleasure, I don't feel that it is neccessarily wrong or sinful to drink recreationally. I think drinking to excess, getting "drunk", being given to wine, alcoholism, etc. is wrong. Where the line is drawn, I don't know. But, as I don't do any drinking and don't plan to start, I don't try to police others in their drinking. Of course, if the line has obviously been crossed then I am smart enough to recognize it, but up to that point I try to give others the benefit of the doubt.
But regardless of any argument to be made in reference to drinking, I think the obvious irresponsibility of the shirt lies in the first phrase: "don't think". Is that supposed to suggest having faith? If so, that's a pretty lame and insulting representation of "faith". If not, what does it mean? The passage doesn't suggest anything, really, so that portion seems a mystery. Maybe it just rhymed.
Mich-duh...-ael
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