Reply #70: Minor still sees the people who do wrong as Christians [View All]

and the rest of us as 'the other'. This is a declaration that his own kind are his own, although flawed. This is more 'you are the other' crap, gussied up for the Methodists. A Christian is a person who quietly does good works, self labels are, according the Jesus, of no value. The apple tree is the tree with apples on it, not the tree with oranges and a sign that says 'Apple Tree'. These people Minor castigates are orange trees, the atheist at the soup kitchen is an apple tree. What each tree thinks it is, that is not the point nor the truth. As one does, so one is.
The second you tell me that which should be self evident, I know it is not true, but just a thing being said. By declaring a 'faith' the entire concept of living that faith is flushed down the drain.