Twisted

I am continually amazed at how individuals twist sayings, statistics and what not to suit their fancy.  In particular, my amazement stems from the fact that these twists are typically constructed to support fallacious arguments and ideologies, that, in most instances, require a body of laws and threats of cudgels to be enforced.

David Yeagley, in a post titled One in Christ?, A Re-take on Missions, which takes a look at interracial marriage, does some twisting of his own while thumping the Good Book as the authority on the subject being considered.

While reading the piece, I did find two short paragraphs, which almost qualify as non sequitur, and follow.

Indeed, this liberal Christianity is theoretically more potent than Communism, and has contributed to the very dissolution of culture and nationalism which Communism seeks to achieve.

But both liberal Christianity and Communism run against human nature.  Not that human nature is the standard of right and wrong.  As Rose (Hepburn) tells Charlie (Bogart), on the African Queen,  “Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above.”  Yet, this objective philosophy pertains to the individual.  To make a political policy of it smacks of religious tyranny and oppression, such as Europe saw in the Dark Ages, and the Islamic world has seen since the day of its appearance.

The above two paragraphs are not twisted and, in my experience, correctly state the kinship between both Communisim and Christianity which are, at the end of the day, two of the most pernicious ideologies afflicting mankind.

Update:  A cautionary word of the day - bibliolater.  Though the number 2 definition could be applied to myself, the excessiveness of the 1st leaves me cold.

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