I realize Jukia is not well liked by many in the creationist camp. I often see him asking for supporting evidence or citations from creationists who say something he may not agree with. He may do all kinds of things like that that you find distasteful. But that being said, earlier in this thread I saw a simply worded statement from Jukia in which he said that TOL was a factor in his feelings toward your faith. In spite of your abject refusal to admit it, he did not say that his lack of belief was “AMR’s fault” (your wording), nor “to lay the burden of his eternal destiny at TOL's feet” (again your words).
I admit that if you seamlessly mix Jukia’s simple statement into the mass of anti-Christian things he has said in other posts, then you could levy all kinds of charges against him. But it is sad that you are incapable of letting a simple statement from Jukia stand on its own merits. It is as if you and your wife had a disagreement, and then later you said, “Look dear, I am going outside for a few minutes”, and she is offended because she interprets that as a declaration from you that you don’t want to be around her any more.
Tell me – if Jukia wanted to say that TOL was a factor in his attitude towards Christianity, does he have to explicitly add a bunch of qualifiers “not the only important factor”, “not just you, AMR”, etc?
Anyway, I think this silly horse has been beat more than to death. I am perfectly satisfied with letting any interested reader peruse the posts above and judge for themselves whether or not the Christian response to Jukia’s post was a bit exaggerated. I am going to let the subject drop, unless someone has something material to say that is important. If you, or any of the Christian community feel further need to try to salvage some mileage out of this, be my guest.
