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Originally posted by ferrellj:
That is bs and you know it bitternu. You saw a statement on their website and decided to cleverly use it to do a little bashing. Why were you on their website if you weren't looking for a little ammo for your game? I'm sure it wasn't to see where to sign up. Why did you ignore my reply? Afraid of a little challenge? I'll repeat it here.
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And this post was created by someone professing to be a deacon and Sunday School teacher. Why do you think it is so important to create a lie in order to try to belittle an organization with which you disagree? Why didn't you list the other 13 items detailing some of the things the Shoals Patriots believe in? Does your church claim to be "Christians"? Are "only" Christians allowed to attend your church? To clarify this matter, I make this simple request. You contact the leadership of Shoals patriots and ask them this question yourself. Then come crawling back to the forums and post their response and beg for forgiveness from us for posting your lies. We'll be waiting for your response.
http://shoalspatriots.com/contactus.html
Okay, Your Royal Density. Here are some answers for you, despite the fact that you gave no answer to me, but merely asserted that I had posted "bs" and then asserted your purported psychic skills to alleged;y interpret my motives.
Q. Why do you think it is so important to create a lie in order to try to belittle an organization with which you disagree?
A. I created no lie; your question does not compute.
Q. Why didn't you list the other 13 items detailing some of the things the Shoals Patriots believe in?
A. The other items were pretty much unambiguous and self-explanatory. I needed no interpretation of them from the keepers of the webv site or other satraps of TEA Party philosophy.
Q. Does your church claim to be "Christians"?
A. I do not own a church. Jesus Christ does, since He purchased it with His blood. I belong to it and to Him. As a member of His church, I am a Christian by definition.
Q. Are "only" Christians allowed to attend your church?
A. I do not own a church. Jesus Christ does, since He purchased it with His blood. The church of which I am a member, like just about all churches in our area, does not exclude anyone from attending, asking only that all who do attend behave responsibly and respectfully.
Q.(Request, or whatever) I make this simple request. You contact the leadership of Shoals patriots and ask them this question yourself. Then come crawling back to the forums and post their response and beg for forgiveness from us for posting your lies. We'll be waiting for your response.
A. I told no lies. I provided a presumptive interpretation of the entry on the Patriots' web page ("We are Christians") and qualified that by noting that the Patriots might not actually be as exclusive as that statement seemed to indicate. To hear YOU tell it, I issued an unqualified accusation that they allowed only Christians as members. No rational, unbiased person, reading what I actually posted, would come to that conclusion. I suggest you go back and read again what I actually posted, since however many times you might have read it thus far, you have not read it for its meaning, but rather for the purpose of finding some way, however perverse, to torque it into something from which you could launch your irrational flurry of invective at me.
As to your anticipatory conclusion ("Then come crawling back to the forums and post their response and beg for forgiveness from us for posting your lies. We'll be waiting for your response"), F*A*G*GETTABOUTIT!
My original post asked, "If any Shoals Patriot is reading this, please advise just what the response of the organization would be should a known atheist, Buddhist, etc. show up at one of your meetings, seek out the membership chairman or whoever is in charge in the membership area, and ask to be accepted as a member." I had honestly supposed that surely among the far-right wingnuts on the forum, at least a couple might be among the alleged "Shoals Patriots" and would give me an answer. That not being the case, I can do without knowing the answer to muy question. Frankly, I have more useful and entertaining things to do (e.g. watching paint dry) than chasing down some "Shoals Patriot" for an answer.
Finally, on the business of LYING, it is my firm conclusion that your obvious MIS-representation of what I posted comes pretty close to being a LIE. Think about it.