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Originally Posted by CC1
Ah, but Scotty, my warp engine engineering friend, here is the difference. I fully expect you to disagree with my positions regarding so called "standards" and so called "holiness". I expect you to contend for the extra biblical legalism to the best of your intellectual ability. I expect it and look forward to it. I expect and look forward to you contending for why I and other exUPC "liberals" are wrong. I take no offense at you thinking we are going down the wrong path and trying to make a case for that.
However it appears you do not share this same ability to recieve constructive criticism against your beliefs and organization. You somehow think that one must be a member of the club to make observations about the club and to suggest a "preferred future" for it.
If you really don't want to be involved in a forum where "outsiders" question the UPC or other old time OP's then I respectfully suggest that you are a prime canidate for the Good News Cafe forum. It would be a shame though because I enjoy most of your posts!
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CC1,
I'm going to weigh in on this one - for all it's worth.
Please don't be upset with me, but over the posting tenure I have had with you, you have painted (no punt intended) our women as "plain faced", "without natural beauty", "stringy haired", among other things and other descriptions that I can't list because I might get the quotes incorrect.
I wonder if you ever considered that there are people who really want to live the way they do? Did you consider that perhaps another church environment is not suitable for them? Did you consider that some have been lead into this organization and would not think of leaving unless the Lord opened another door? Did you consider that God is still blessing these people?
Why are you the only one that is right on this subject - for every person?
I consider "constructive criticism" as being done in a less "disparaging" dialogue, but that's just me.
Please understand that I express my thoughts with kindness to you.
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