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>>>>> At 16:38 10/14, Nick Geovanis <n-geovanis@nwu.edu> said:
> 
> ...But those who call themselves Christians and make great public display
> of their "Christianity" are full of prescriptions for others and not
> themselves. Our taxes, "rendered unto Caesar", support the mightiest
> killing machine seen on earth. But our Promisekeeper friends ignore that,
> and concentrate on their wives' behavior, ignoring the Satanic works of
> which they are a part.

Correction: they ignore that, and concentrate on their own behavior with
respect to their family.  If PK spends much energy talking about what wives
should do, it's news to me.

Promise Keepers seem more focused on prescriptions for themselves.  Their
message is "this is what *we* should do in our families".  Sure, they think
you should do it, too, but they aren't doing much to push that message down
your throat that I can see.

There's little argument about the goal of aiding and defending the
helpless; considerable difference in judgement about the most effective
means to this goal.  Nothing satanic there, in my opinion.

You've just scratched the surface of the hard sayings in the Old
Testament.  But really, I think you're on better ground in the NT.  Your
earlier remark comparing PK to the scribes and Pharisees has much more
force.

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