Being Offended By Everything

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False Offense by Hyperpreterists

While I was a fundamentalist Christian, I experienced & at times participated in the activity of being offended by almost everything.  They would often be offended by the length of someones hair, or if a woman wore slacks, or other such things that may or may not have some biblical principle behind it.

Recently, we at PretBlog have experienced some hyperpreterists that have been going on & on about how highly offended they are about this or that.  They are offended that someone said they are glad they are not their spouse — hey, sometimes I feel sorry for my own spouse since I’m a short geeky guy who can’t dance but you don’t see me get all offended.  These same hyperpreterists even make irrational assumptions at words, such as “whale” & “pig” & get offended because they think someone is talking about their weight.  They are constantly getting offended & demanding apologies for their hurt feelings.  But you know what I get REALLY offended by?  I get offended when people who claim to be Christians get more offended by common expressions & by their own irrational assumptions than by how these same people berate 2000 years worth of Christianity.

I & 2000 years worth of Christians would like these hyperpreterists to apologize for implying 2000 years worth of Christians have been too dumb to see the supposed “truth” of the hyperpreterist interpretation.

I & 2000 years worth of Christians would like these hyperpreterists to apologize…no, not apologize, WE WANT THEM TO REPENT of defaming God, defaming Jesus, defaming the apostles, defaming the Holy Spirit, & defaming the community of saints!

I am HIGHLY OFFENDED that people claiming to be Christians hate Christianity so much that they would defame it & try to replace it with their own private interpretations.

These hyperpreterists get offended by petty things but excuse real offenses.  They overlook that they are offensive to God, offensive to Jesus, offensive to the apostles, offensive to the Holy Spirit, & offensive to the community of the saints.  No, no — the hyperpreterists think we should overlook all of that & just accept them.

So, next time you hear these hyperpreterists whine about how “offended” they are & demanding an apology — ask them to repent of the offensive behavior they are engaging in against 2000 years worth of Christians.

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dee dee says...

Spot on Roderick. Dan Trotter said something similar:

Now, I dare say if I would apply the aforementioned epithets to a modern day Hymenean, I would hear some variation of the following: “Brother, you’re not showing love. This is just a minor dispute about the timing of certain eschatological events.” I would respond to this by not only appealing to Paul, but also to Tina Turner: “What’s love got to do with this?” “Love” is the first word out of the mouth of someone about to lose a theological argument. If someone dumps a load of horse-patookey into my living room, I’m not going to tell him how much I love him. I am going to request of him in no uncertain terms to shovel the stuff out.

And..

My view is that hymenaean heretics don’t deserve a seat at the eschatological debating table. My view is that giving these doctrinal deviants a place of respectability will allow “enemy forces to gather to deceive the unwary who cannot defend themselves.” Now, if a hyperpreterist reading the above thinks that is unloving, may I point out a few things to you?

One: I love the people who are potentially subject to your deception. I asked my wife, who is not a mean, nasty ogre like I am, would she let our children attend a church whose leadership contained hyperpreterists. Short pause, then: “No.” She was thinking about her children whom she loves, not about any hyperpreterist she didn’t love.

Two: I have attacked your doctrine, not your persons. Your anguished responses that I’m unloving to you remind me of what happened to the debate over homosexuality. It is now impossible to attack homosexuality as a sin, because the homosexuals and their sympathizers will immediately adopt the rhetoric of our current victim-culture: “You’re intolerant! You’re unloving!” Pleas to separate one’s love for the person from hatred of the person’s belief get lost in all the shouting.

Three: it is you who have publicly challenged a cherished belief which I, and hundreds of millions of other Christians, as well as the apostle Paul, have believed concerning the physical resurrection of the body. And what do you expect in return? That everybody will just smile at you and say, “That’s OK, brother. We all have different beliefs. Let’s just smile and love one another!” Come on.

Bold emphasis mine.

Posted on 5 May 2009 at 10:18 pm
Roderick_E says...

Excellent comments by Dan Trotter.
P.S. I notice he mentioned the “you gotta tolerate us” line that is common among both the homosexual movement & heresies in general. See, I wasn’t the first to notice this connection. :-)

Posted on 5 May 2009 at 11:37 pm
Drew says...

What a bunch of wusses. Sadly, that’s what liberalism will do to your soul. If you really want to be like Jesus, you gotta be the type of guy who will build his own whip, run into a courtyard shouting, terrorize a bunch of animals, and wreck an entire row of merchant stands — without caring much about others’ opinion on the matter.

Posted on 6 May 2009 at 7:10 am
Roderick_E says...

hehe — what an image Drew…that “offends” me :-)

Posted on 6 May 2009 at 8:15 am
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