I signed the statement simply because I've seen enough anti-Semitism and wacky racial stuff in my threads in the last year or so to make it clear it was needed.

And no, I'm not talking about judicious commentary on Churchill's war tactics, etc.

I'm talking about memes and statements full of hatred, rage, and spite, along with cuddle sessions with Hitler.

Yeah. of hatred, rage, and spite, along with cuddle sessions with Hitler. Introduction. So there have been some doings of late. There was a particular pastoral situation that

spun into the spotlight like a helicopter crash, and the pieces are still falling out of the sky,

sort of. There was a declaration published, an Antioch declaration, in fact, and there have been

a bazillion comments on it all, and it's been, shall we say,

a bit heated. Some of these bumps and bruises are the ordinary knocks of brothers. I grew up

with four brothers and the occasional elbows and shoves and sharp words were exchanged, but almost

always like dogs barking and roughhousing hardly ever with real wrath.

Most of the time, we were all playing together five minutes later like nothing happened.

No grudges, no bad attitudes, and short accounts.

But some of these collisions are revelatory of alien spirits.

This is not me saying these people are not Christians.

Jesus rebuked his own disciples, the apostles of the Christian Church,

for wanting to call fire down on Samaritans. The disciples did not know what spirit they were of,

and yet God and His mercy still gave them His Holy Spirit and made them great warriors in his kingdom.

Peter rebuked Jesus for insisting that he must go to Jerusalem and be crucified.

And Jesus said that was a satanic temptation in the mouth of Peter. And then Peter went on to be

one of the greatest leaders in the early church. So here we have examples of necessary rebuke,

but it is the rebuke of a brother, not Joab smiting Abner under the fifth rib.

And mixed into the melee are real ghouls, apostates, orcs, feds, and belligerents,

...