Annella, I already posted what upsets me, from the locked thread that was a part of your reply to me there. The other thing I said pulled in here by you from the thread of walksalone? I said I found it 'interesting' that Mackenzie wrote what she did. Why? Because it was posted with a quote from you about spelling your name correctly and she mentioned the talking down to others and not addressing the issue. Maybe you do NOT find that strange, but considering you 2 are friends, I thought it odd because you have not addressed walksalone's thread, so it appeared as if she was saying what she did to you, period. I don't know why that is such a big deal, it was just a comment and not meant to incite. That in itself is ridiculous. You have said why you haven't posted, but that's between you and him.
I have made very few posts in the lengthy threads re anything Christian for a couple months now. They have gotten to a point of being a circular argument/discussion between sherna and queen for the most part and neither side is going to convince the other. I actually stopped reading them. I have said plenty to marieelissa, but if you consider that awful because she is a Christian on a given day, well, that is how you feel. I don't include her in the group of well thought out posters on here, so I do not really care. You took it out of context.
Therein 'lies the rub' as they say. Whether I am asking questions about the bible or religion and you are answering or I make a post without being derogatory in it, it seems that somehow it usually gets turned around and you are once again putting me in a certain 'group'. If you look back at the locked thread, where I took my quote from, you will see what I am saying - in part ie :"Your taking words and using them against Christian, just like you've always done." I DO NOT always do that. You have done it many times and it comes at me out of the clear blue. Why is it I can say things to amyrouse, sherna, sheryl, other 'religious' people and I do not get a backlash? If THEY disagree with me it is never posted in the same manner that you do. I won't deny your expertise on the bible, it's there. But you are not an expert on everything out there that is talked about in these forums. NO ONE is. It seems as if one minute you are calm and collected and the next you're making accusations, generalizations, and angry at anyone who doesn't agree with you 100%. I just don't work that way. I am NOT SAYING you do this ONLY to me. I have seen it happen with others and from their replies, they appear to be bewildered by it also.
I don't expect to be agreed with by everyone, but I do know about a few things. I just can't help wondering when you are 'nice' one minute and the next minute I feel like I can hear you seething at me because I am not in your 'christian family'. Defend your friends, I don't care about that, but I don't find it okay to put others in a bad light just to do it. I am not a doormat either. It's hard to explain, but that's the best I can do right now. I am already late for work, typed this out way too fast and I am sure I will see something I wish I had left out or put in, but I have GOT to go.
Your right, I will not post in Walkalone threads anymore.....it's my personal choice. My boundaries.
That... is a good example of personal attack without provocation.....moving on.
Because we are
FRIENDS, (Mackenzie and I) you should have known she wasn't referring to that at all. I feel you took that for an opportunity to twist her words at me. If you have some beef against me, say it to me. She felt bad, and posted me about not referring to me that way. I'm not stupid. You accuse me of taking it out of context, when in actuallity,
you took it out of context, and twisted it. You say no....nothing can be further from the truth...........
As far as putting you in a group, I said it one time....not constantly like your accusing me of. You accuse me of doing it many times.....where? However, it's no "revelation" who the Christians, Athiests, Agnostics, or just those who want to jump on the bandwagon, are. Sherna put it pretty well when she said, it's not Christians, vs. Non Christians. True, there's more being represented than mentioned.
Now your judging my character. Nice one minute and then seething the next? Can you actually see that or maybe I'm answering the qestions in the same way they were presented. If I offend anyone, I'm quick to apologize when I'm wrong, or found to be wrong. Some of your accusations have no merit or they are your own personal feelings. I do not fling accusations, generalizations, and angry at anyone who doesn't agree with me 100%.....cheap shot. That is not true. The subject of the Muslim Mosque got very "heated". On both sides.....I might add.
Your making some very accusatory "flings" at my character, and I'm going to call you on it. I've never made negative responses about your character. You made reference to my "high and mighty attitude". I've never called people names said their remarks were inflammatory, like you've said to me. Everybody has a right to post their convictions, whether it be Chirstian or not. The very things your accusing me of, your guilty of them.
Not all Christians are cookie cutter robots. If I'm being attaked in a post without any provocation, or my brothers or sisters, it's going to get addressed. It's unprovoked. Not just you, but anyone who thinks they can say anything about the Lord I love, and the people that follow him. Oh I'm not just saying anything like a normal "razzying", but a real pointed attack, will not slide by. Sherna posts how she wants to, Sheryl posts how she wants to, etc. Everybody is different and everybody has a different way of expressing themselves. Don't try to separate Sherna, Sheryl, Amyrouse, ect., like we are different people. We are all in the same family, and love the same Lord. We are different in our personalities and postings, but there is no separation between us and there is no discord among us, so don't imply one.
Yes, I remember that long post about how you saw things changing in the Forum, how there were more and more Chirstians coming on and on and on......I'll go get it for the next post. What you were really saying is that you didn't like the change of the Christians defending their Faith, and more of them felt more comfortable posting. You went into great detail about it. Well, things change, and I've gotten emails from people on this forum who are glad to be able to join in again to where before they felt left out. I remember you started out with "what happened to turning the other cheek". That's the REAL problem here isn't it? You don't like Christians to stand up and lift up a standard when they are attacked. We are called hypocritical, but none of us have made disparaging remarks or damaging references to you about Atheism or whatever. However, it seems to be open season on Christians 24/7, and now when someone says....hey, wait a minute, then it's time to pull out the "turn the other cheek" and start judging us with it.
I never once said I knew it all. Man I wish! I get very fervent sometimes on a subject......so does everybody else. Never would I be angry because someone was not in my Christian family. That's absurd, I've devoted my life to taking this gospel to the lost. You've made a lot of negative accusations here about my character, and claims that I've done this and that. Those acussations are
unfounded, or it's how you perceive it.