Bloggy McBlogster recently wrote in to tell us all that "guilt by association" is cheap rationale for critical commentary". While I agree with his comment, I can't help but wonder he really just works for CBC and is actually looking for a raise.
Here's his full comment:
I've been following this blog since its inception. Having grown up in church, I read a lot here I can totally agree with, but some I think is simple mob mentality. Knowing how to differentiate the two is something I think purveyors of authentic faith ought to be good at doing. And we all need help.
Locutus, I think it's very decent of you to point out that, though you might not be fully agreeable to CBC at large, it shouldn't necessarily mean that "everything any leader from CBC says is somehow wrong." Many (though not all) lack the objective chutzpah to understand this concept. I wish, for the sake of more interesting dialogue, more of us could figure out that "guilt by association" is cheap rationale for critical commentary.
Many, I think, are just too involved in throwing stones to know when one is less deserved.
Hmmmmnnn, lets see Mr. McBloster, you are sticking up for CBC, but you do it with such little conviction… You make a good comment, but you do it on a banned blog… and you actually admit to "following this blog since its inception"…I say NO RAISE FOR YOU.
On a side note, I agree with you completely. There is a mob mentality here (of course "safety in numbers" is one of the founding pricinples of this blog) and sometimes it crosses the line. It doesn't really bother me though, I think people are too damn sensitive.
And finally, as my good friend Sister Paula says, just because a preacher/teacher may say something with which you disagree, don't rob yourself of the blessing of the many things that they teach with which you DO agree. It seems this is a concept we both agree on.
Sticks and stones may break my bones
and B.T. may have hurt me,
But the best revenge is to be really funny…
And never, ever give them my money.
“Locutus, I think it’s very decent of you…”
“…the objective chutzpah…”
The sound of the borg calling to me.
I, for one, am so far enjoying the mob-mentality of this here blog. I know that I have lived most of my life being surrounded by an opposing mob-mentality of the large church. It’s nice for once to hear other people who’s feelings on the experience are simiar to mine.
I feel my faith is authentic, but it does get tiresome having to constantly defend one’s self. It’s nice to not have to do it every now and then.
There’s a couple scriptures come to mind …
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. (Isaiah 28:8 KJV)
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. (Proverbs 26:11 KJV)
Potlucks are SO much fun when kicked off with those scriptures and a blessing!
How is it, that there are several scriptures about sitting down to the Lord’s banquet table, to enjoy a feast of great food and fellowship with the Lord Himself, and yet, so many people settle for the vomit covered tables of religion, where they have to pick through filth to find a single morsel to eat?
‘Bloggy McFlogster’ comments seem to say ‘yo man, as long as you can find something good to eat, don’t criticize the spread’ – at least that seems to be his inference by “objective chutzpah” …
To me, real “objective chutzpah” says ‘Ewww! Gross man, I’d rather starve, than eat this filth’.
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Bloggy is welcome to continue eating at his Isaiah 28:8 table, where the pickin’s are slim, and he has to sort through filth to find ‘em. But for me – this is the table I want:
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. (Psalms 23:5 KJV)
“There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.”
-P. J. O’Rourke
“Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.”
-Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
I believe their is strength in numbers. The big churches might be willing to listen more if the disatisfied outnumber them.
I want financialblessings back
look bro you suck…plain and simple, you have no life, no family and most likely you are broke and thats why you disagree with tithing so don’t on CBC when you don’t have a clue what your talking about…so go suck somewhere else
Sometimes no response is needed.
The Mortons don’t have to respond when they know you are beneath them and don’t need or want to sink to your level.
Thank you, Mortons!
No, sorry B.T.,
The Mortons are the first ones to sink to someones level.
However, we know when someone’s comment is so poorly written that a response is not neccessary.
awesome! your response was inthe right limitations of what I guessed i just won $10 cause me and a buddy bet on what you’d say…thanks Mortons
You know……
don’t what?
“so go suck somewhere else”
You’re the visitor. This IS where he sucks.
I hope he tithes on that $10. it would be a shame to have the chain of blessings stop with him.