Lincoln and Religion

[Tzaphkiel]

Originally Posted by phetaroi

Perhaps you're not really behaving as a normal human...because humans have a natural tendency to label and classify things...to an extent, it's how we organize our lives. But I have a feeling that, in reality, you're against using a classification word, but probably not against intellectually classifying things. After all, you constantly post about various, specific religions (as if you are an expert on practically all of them).

for people who have a chip on their shoulder or a bone to pick or a seething hostility regarding opinions people may hold on politics, skin color, civil rights, the government, or current events, then their agenda and motivation and desire is to vent on those and it becomes glaringly apparent. That is not a discussion of religion and spirituality, in the (gasp) actual forum to discuss religion and spirituality.

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by Tzaphkiel

for people who have a chip on their shoulder or a bone to pick or a seething hostility regarding opinions people may hold on politics, skin color, civil rights, the government, or current events, then their agenda and motivation and desire is to vent on those and it becomes glaringly apparent. That is not a discussion of religion and spirituality, in the (gasp) actual forum to discuss religion and spirituality.

Yes, it is, because we are talking about labels, including religious labels. And that discussion came out of when posters were trying to put some moral/religious labels on Lincoln and others. And this is what you do whenever you losing an argument. You try to paint the other person as being off-topic. You are NOT the discussion police. You must not be much fun at a party.

Go back to the first post and see how many labels are used in that interesting post.