As you rightly state, these admonitions apply to Christians of all stripes. I am personally convicted by your rebuke. You could have replaced Paul’s name with mine and it would be applicable in many contexts, online and in “real life”.

Indeed, it was Jesus who said:

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak

Lord Jesus, please help us to tame our tongues. We are incapable of doing so ourselves. Grant us the humility and sensitivity to apologize to those we have hurt with our words. Amen.

I fear that you are the exact person most liberals accuse conservative Christians of being. Sarcastic, rude, cutting and misrepresenting.

I am taking no position in the overall debate. I’m simply asking you to consider the way you address your brothers and sisters in Christ.

If you can’t speak the way liberals ask conservative Christians to speak then you really undermine your own argument. It’s tough for us to believe that you care about “women’s rights” or people at all when you talk like that.

Same goes for conservative Christians. It’s just we’ve all heard it before and I thought it would be good for someone representing the other side to own up and make a difference in the dialogue.

seriously? I mean, I’m no fan of Obama, but play on the level. David, you’re supposedly a Christian. Since when is it cool to slander someone with half-truths? I missed that verse.

If you get to worry about Obama’s muslim past (and by the way, did you get to pick which school you went to when you were 10?), then I get to call George W. Bush the retard in chief. Except that such a thing would be a massive slap in the face of the mentally handicapped.

wow.

Therefore, Christians – of all people – should challenge one another to think as precisely and as Biblically on all issues of conscience, so that we will be all the more ready for our accounting with God. We should also be free to share what we have witnessed (for instance, Obama’s deliberate rejection of the Born Alive Infant Protection bill) and once that knowledge has been shared, we have some responsibility to acknowledge it and not hide from its reality. After all, this is exactly what many people did during the Slavery era and during the Holocaust- many decent and otherwise honorable folks didn’t really want to know what was going on and tried to ignore what was happening because it was happening “in the South” or “over there in Europe”.

Of course, there are many evil things happening in our world and we can’t possibly address all of them. But if we become aware that a leader or politician is knowingly and deliberately turning a blind eye to evil that is happening directly under his or her purview and jurisdiction, this is a very serious issue and at the very least, we ought to voice our strong, unapologetic objections to that leader or politician.