How to destroy a thread

[El Predicador]

Pelethias,

I sorry that the nuance of what I was saying to Mizpeh was lost on a person of your intellect. No I am not being factious, I must not have communicated my point well enough. So let me try it like this.:

Mizpeh was commenting on how it is always the conversative seeking to separate or divide and the liberal was more live and let live.

I was trying to point out due to the sheer nature of the social interaction, that is the way it MUST be.

Point made by Mizpeh, in Romans Paul recognizes food sacrificed to idols not to be sin. But he will accommodate his less enlightened brethren so as not to be a point of contention. Conservative divisive, Liberal acquiescent. Yet in Corinthians Paul addresses a specific sexual sin which apparently the church is accommodating. Paul now in the conservative role demands the offending party to be marked and cast out of the church!

Same Paul different dynamic. But because his moral compass is now the one violated he becomes the one who simply cannot co-exist.

So the point is this, purely from the viewpoint of the social interaction of a given situation:

Regardless of what the topic is or whether a third party believes a standard to be picayune or paramount, the party who feels it to be a matter of salvation will inevitably be viewed as the one seeming to be divisive because if to them it is a matter of salvation, it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to accommodate. The one who does not believe the standard or manner of conduct a matter of salvation will be seen by the third party as accommodating. That is the true reason the “cons” are viewed as divisive and the “libs” or not. It is simply the nature of the beast within the group/social dynamics.