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	Comments on: Take Mark Driscoll&#8217;s Forgiveness Challenge	</title>
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		By: Benny S.		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/03/take-mark-driscolls-forgiveness-challenge/#comment-96684&quot;&gt;Larry28&lt;/a&gt;.

Regarding Jennifer LeClaire, when she last appeared on Jim Bakker&#039;s appalling show, where chaotic religious nuttiness abounded while she sat among the hosts and other panelists, her body / facial language demonstrated tacit approval of what was happening in the room. That&#039;s when I began to have suspicions about her spiritual sincerity. On top of that, I&#039;m now more cognizant of how frequently she tosses around the word &quot;Jezebel&quot;, which feels tailored-made for her Charisma audience. I wish I had a dollar for every time she&#039;s used that word.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/03/take-mark-driscolls-forgiveness-challenge/#comment-96684">Larry28</a>.</p>
<p>Regarding Jennifer LeClaire, when she last appeared on Jim Bakker&#8217;s appalling show, where chaotic religious nuttiness abounded while she sat among the hosts and other panelists, her body / facial language demonstrated tacit approval of what was happening in the room. That&#8217;s when I began to have suspicions about her spiritual sincerity. On top of that, I&#8217;m now more cognizant of how frequently she tosses around the word &#8220;Jezebel&#8221;, which feels tailored-made for her Charisma audience. I wish I had a dollar for every time she&#8217;s used that word.</p>
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		By: Burwell Stark		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I would have loved to respond to his recent tweets but he has blocked me, and half of America, on Twitter. I suppose his &#039;interpretation&#039; of the Biblical mandate is: &lt;i&gt;Forgiveness for me but not for thee&lt;/i&gt;.

I am a public administrator in the workforce development field, and when I or my colleagues see a gap in employment that large, it usually indicates time served in prison. However, in this case, he was the warden and the prisoners were the uninformed members of MH.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would have loved to respond to his recent tweets but he has blocked me, and half of America, on Twitter. I suppose his &#8216;interpretation&#8217; of the Biblical mandate is: <i>Forgiveness for me but not for thee</i>.</p>
<p>I am a public administrator in the workforce development field, and when I or my colleagues see a gap in employment that large, it usually indicates time served in prison. However, in this case, he was the warden and the prisoners were the uninformed members of MH.</p>
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		By: Living Liminal		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Living Liminal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 06:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;How can you promote a forgiveness challenge when you can’t even mention the main reason you might have some issues to forgive or to be forgiven for?&quot;

Why mention all those nasty people who betrayed him when he&#039;s done the &quot;righteous&quot; thing by choosing to &quot;forgive and move on&quot;... *gag*]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How can you promote a forgiveness challenge when you can’t even mention the main reason you might have some issues to forgive or to be forgiven for?&#8221;</p>
<p>Why mention all those nasty people who betrayed him when he&#8217;s done the &#8220;righteous&#8221; thing by choosing to &#8220;forgive and move on&#8221;&#8230; *gag*</p>
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		By: L Howe		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/03/take-mark-driscolls-forgiveness-challenge/#comment-96688</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[L Howe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 02:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e? My sister and her family got thrown under the bus by Driscoll at MH.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e? My sister and her family got thrown under the bus by Driscoll at MH.</p>
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		By: Tacitus		</title>
		<link>https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/03/take-mark-driscolls-forgiveness-challenge/#comment-96689</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 22:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/03/take-mark-driscolls-forgiveness-challenge/#comment-96684&quot;&gt;Larry28&lt;/a&gt;.

Forgiveness has long been used as a weapon by the right-wing fundamentalist church -- granted without question to allies, forever withheld from political enemies.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/07/03/take-mark-driscolls-forgiveness-challenge/#comment-96684">Larry28</a>.</p>
<p>Forgiveness has long been used as a weapon by the right-wing fundamentalist church &#8212; granted without question to allies, forever withheld from political enemies.</p>
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