Friday Night: Bible Seminar: But Christians Don’t Criticize Other People

Wow, I’m getting a full-fledged Bible Seminar (minus any actual citations to Bible verses) from a student at ISU posting on my blog. She’s upset about a post I made criticizing Tara Rowe at The Politcal Game for a post regarding correspondence with State Senate Majority Bart Davis. Of Tara’s reply in which she accused Senator Davis of treating her as a “an average know-nothing college student.” Here’s what I wrote regarding Tara’s letter and general tone:

No, Tara doesn’t strike me as one of those “average know-nothing college students” (those would be her constituents, who voted for her as a Student Senator.) She strikes me as one of those above average, slightly arrogant students who believes she’s figured the world out, and has little respect for anyone who disagrees with her. Given that, Davis’ response was completely appropriate.

Of course the idea of saying “average know nothing college students” by a Student Senator insults her constituents and that was what I was referring to in the first paragraph. Its one of those things where I said Tara’s obviously fairly bright, but also somewhat arrogant in her views. She treated the leader of our State Senate with some undeserved contempt. So, I stated my opinion.

Well, today, I got sage Bible advice from an ISU Student:

I am sorry, but when did Jesus teach us to criticize people just because we don’t agree with a decision they make? Jesus taught us to love our enemies, to bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them which despitefully use us and persecute us. Perhaps you should spend less time blogging and more time reading from the book which is the foundation for your religion, Christianity.

Wow, I’m not sure I criticized Tara for a decision (unless arrogance counts.) Second, I don’t hate Tara. In fact I said she was “an above average student”. While there’s certainly a case for reading the Bible more and Blogging less, I reject the idea behind this post and a subsequent one she made on a poetry post (I deleted her comment from there BTW. Don’t touch my poetry. If you like it, talk about it, don’t go off on unrelated political stuff.):

Maybe you can recite this before you criticize people you don’t know??? Just an idea.

Of course, our ISU Student followed up on the Original post with this:

I am sorry, I should’ve left the reference because you might not know where to find that particular scripture (oh, and I will post an extra scripture that might benefit you-your welcome):

Matthew 5:44-45 (hint: it is in the NEW Testament).

Which leads me to wonder whether they’ve started to offer classes on Arrogance.

The idea behind the post is that Jesus was just a soft, pillow guy. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the most dangerous thing in the world is a little bit of scripture, because taken in isolation it leads us to an unbalanced life.

Christ had some very critical observations:

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?-Luke 11:39,40

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?-Matthew 23:33

But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.-Matthew 16:23

I could go on, but here’s the point. The Jesus of the Bible wasn’t some pansey who never said anything controversial. If you look at Jesus, he was someone who stirred things up so much that people wanted to kill him and you don’t do that, by just being so soft and kind all the time.

The thing that’s really sick is that these people don’t believe that, for example, you shouldn’t criticize people you don’t know. If that were the standard, none of them would have blogs, they’d all hang out on Xanga and whine about their parents. Its just an argument to get people to shut up, to silence people, and I’m not going for it.

I’ve got two words that show their duplicity on this: Brandi Swindell. These leftists roasted Brandi up one side, down the other. They’ve thrown every dirty and cruel personal attack they can think of on her and I respond to some of it, because its so wrong, and some of this stuff is so vicious.

Its not saying something like, “She’s slightly arrogant.” Oh my gosh, what an awful accusation. I mean, she’s got to be in tears and scandalized.

I trust from reading her blog that Tara is capable of handling being called “slightly arrogant” and still managing to live her life. Might be a good suggestion for her friends, too.