Is this a true Christian?

[Whateverist]

Courage, hey? How do you know he isn't simply rash? If his boldness stems from insanity it hardly counts as courage. Belligerence isn't courage. Being swept away by anger and hatred isn't courage.

You are entitled to your opinion of course. But you may be curious why so many are reacting as we do to the way you are expressing it.

1. I do think he is being rash but possibly not in the sense you mean (see 4).
2. Insanity - that's a big leap in the dark! I see no reason to think him insane.
3. Belligerence certainly takes courage if you think you may be attacked for it.
4. He is not being swept away by anger and hatred, he has a clear plan.

Yes, I am curious why a few people don't understand my perfectly clear words and feel the need to twist them (not you). Could it be that they are all just reading Epi's twisted version of my words and not my actual words? I am also curious why no one has risen to the challenge yet. Is it that they are all incapable or do they just want to mock for the infantile fun of it?

The preacher struck me as very highly agitated. I have to think the camera in the hand of his woman servant is a measure he took to protect himself from the retaliation he fears. You're saying in the face of that fear, he none the less is relentless in carrying out his verbal attack on the atheists. Given that the preacher is a monster and a tyrant with an agenda, he sure does lash out with malice and cruelty energetically to inflict the most harm as possible on those he hates. I suppose I can concede the point. It isn't that his 'courage' ameliorates the loathing we must all feel toward him in any way.

What goes against the grain for me is that he isn't incurring the risk reluctantly out of necessity. If the person who kills the enemy that is about to kill me is motivated more by a desire to kill rather than to save me, was he courageous or just monstrous? What the preacher does seems more gratuitous than necessary to me. What really does he hope to accomplish? He isn't going to win any converts. He is simply lashing out against those who reject his world view. There isn't any nobility in it, no discernible purpose served. If the preacher is motivated by his enjoyment cruelty and venting his spleen then courage may not be the right word. He certainly isn't a coward either. I think he is just brash.