Yes we can, unless you can't be respectful to those you disragee with.

See that's the thing. You wouldn't make this remark if you understood what a real Christian is.
And by the way I am not a Christian, I do favor at a minimum civil unions but also gay marriage.
I am merely pointing out the reality of the Christian Faith and that they are not going to play respectful games nor care what you think of them because they won't play your way.
I will grant you that different people will have different ideas of where the word Christian applies, and I will grant you that there are a lot of people who call themselves Christian and even go to Church but at bottom are not real Christi...

Yes we can, unless you can't be respectful to those you disragee with.

See that's the thing. You wouldn't make this remark if you understood what a real Christian is.
And by the way I am not a Christian, I do favor at a minimum civil unions but also gay marriage.
I am merely pointing out the reality of the Christian Faith and that they are not going to play respectful games nor care what you think of them because they won't play your way.
I will grant you that different people will have different ideas of where the word Christian applies, and I will grant you that there are a lot of people who call themselves Christian and even go to Church but at bottom are not real Christians.
As far as what I call real Christians, and they are the people who have elected two Presidents so far, while I have carried signs against them, I also know that if I were to be a Christian, it would be their veiw I would adopt because it is based on the Bible as the Bible is, not as some make it easy feel good people try to accomodate 'modern times'.

Care to clarify?

I first realize he wasn't a real Christian when the recent email thing about him being a Muslim occurred.
No I didn't think he was a Muslim. The email was silly; an intelligent person could figure out from the things said within the email itself which weren't consistent as context that the email was poppycock.
What told me that he wasn't really a Christian was the fact that you don't get to be his age while in politics and yet be a real Christian if someone can remotely seriously raise the question. A real Christian will have had real contacts with real people in private non political circumstances where evidence of his faith, if it exists, will have been clea...

Care to clarify?

I first realize he wasn't a real Christian when the recent email thing about him being a Muslim occurred.
No I didn't think he was a Muslim. The email was silly; an intelligent person could figure out from the things said within the email itself which weren't consistent as context that the email was poppycock.
What told me that he wasn't really a Christian was the fact that you don't get to be his age while in politics and yet be a real Christian if someone can remotely seriously raise the question. A real Christian will have had real contacts with real people in private non political circumstances where evidence of his faith, if it exists, will have been clearly stamped in their minds. There should have been people and some of them famous people coming out of the woodwork to testify for him, but there wasn't.
Later I read his account of how he decided to become a Christian. It confirmed my view. That wasn't a conversion he described, it was a calculation, presumably a political calculation.