I think the concept of emergence is something religious people have a tough time understanding.

[napoleon_in_rags]

49. My take...

Is that I think the sky is blue. If a guy disagrees and says its red, then later in the conversation says its blue, my take is that he was right 50% of the time. If he consistently said the sky was red, I would say he was right 0% of the time. So the inconsistent was preferable to the consistent.

Now when we are talking about the ideals of Christian kindness, if we nail a person from deviating from them while bashing those same ideals, we are in effect saying that when that person is disrespectful and rude to us, he is agreeing with us. That to me seems a poor position to take. I think it would be more powerful to show some respect to those ideals that we agree are good, demonstrating them ourselves, and zoom in on the exact fundamental loonyness that we know is destructive, even if it means acknowledging that some christian ideals are positive.