Comments on: Wallbuilders Tells Audience One Thing and Pediatricians Another Thing https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/06/wallbuilders-tells-audience-one-thing-and-pediatricians-another-thing/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/06/wallbuilders-tells-audience-one-thing-and-pediatricians-another-thing/#comment-53344 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:58:05 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10364#comment-53344 This is very useful blog. Even the UK Foreign Ministry likes to be kept abreast of what’s here!
Like ‘Catholic Christianty’, ‘Evangelical Christianity’ is broad thing: I’m sure there are plenty of good, honest evangelical Christians out there. The problem is that the ‘baddies’ make the most noise.
I spending quite a lot time reflecting on what might be their (the ‘baddies”) ‘problem’, and I think that it is essentially insecurity: their lack of faith leads them to grasp at dubious ‘certainties’, with which they then wish to bash others.
As for Warren: I’m sure he can cope with brickbats from nut-cases … just as others on this blog can.

]]> By: Warren https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/06/wallbuilders-tells-audience-one-thing-and-pediatricians-another-thing/#comment-53343 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:27:32 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10364#comment-53343 In reply to Zoe Brain.

@Zoe – Thanks, you are right, refusing to be polarized brings a special set of concerns…

]]> By: Zoe Brain https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/06/wallbuilders-tells-audience-one-thing-and-pediatricians-another-thing/#comment-53342 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:45:07 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10364#comment-53342 Warren – you’re an exception. In fact, you’re exceptional, though I’m sure you know many professionals who have your integrity.
But I ask you, in all sincerity: how many evangelical professionals who are involved (with much publicity) in the culture wars aren’t liars, to put it crudely? How many don’t routinely not just engage in “spin”, but actual falsehood?
What proportion? 10%? 50%? Or is it, to a first approximation, 100%?
Lest you get discouraged, go read the Screwtape Letters again. It doesn’t matter if every single person in a group is guilty of grave moral failings if the message they claim to follow is actually true.
I do ask you though just when are Evangelicals with Integrity going to call out these professional liars with the same degree of publicity that they themselves use.
Your blog is more influential than you know. You’ve given non-Christians, even anti-Christians, an example that shows that not all Evangelicals routinely lie. That some go where the evidence takes them. That maybe there’s something in the Christian religion worth looking at.
As regards its impact on Evangelicals… not so much though.
I wish you well. G_d knows you deserve it. You know what it’s like to be unfairly maligned by all sides.

]]> By: Dave https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/06/wallbuilders-tells-audience-one-thing-and-pediatricians-another-thing/#comment-53341 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:56:15 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10364#comment-53341 “Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive”
Another sad day for Christian integrity (sigh)
Dave

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/10/06/wallbuilders-tells-audience-one-thing-and-pediatricians-another-thing/#comment-89789 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:58:05 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10364#comment-89789 This is very useful blog. Even the UK Foreign Ministry likes to be kept abreast of what’s here!
Like ‘Catholic Christianty’, ‘Evangelical Christianity’ is broad thing: I’m sure there are plenty of good, honest evangelical Christians out there. The problem is that the ‘baddies’ make the most noise.
I spending quite a lot time reflecting on what might be their (the ‘baddies”) ‘problem’, and I think that it is essentially insecurity: their lack of faith leads them to grasp at dubious ‘certainties’, with which they then wish to bash others.
As for Warren: I’m sure he can cope with brickbats from nut-cases … just as others on this blog can.

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