tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928317.post111982359936910360..comments2024-01-29T14:24:46.852-05:00Comments on Wes Ellis: making labels.wellis68http://www.blogger.com/profile/06087588494600746854noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928317.post-1120153476575630662005-06-30T13:44:00.000-04:002005-06-30T13:44:00.000-04:00I like the phrase "right but repulsive" I saw a bl...I like the phrase "right but repulsive" I saw a blog today that almose fits that "label" only it is so repulsive that any rightness was totally blocked out.<BR/>You do good work Wes! BlessingsArthur Brokop IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15347223269423770913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928317.post-1119891828468332632005-06-27T13:03:00.000-04:002005-06-27T13:03:00.000-04:00Great post!!! I have a similar post on my blog. I ...Great post!!! I have a similar post on my blog. I hate labels!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11928317.post-1119891033222020542005-06-27T12:50:00.000-04:002005-06-27T12:50:00.000-04:00Wes,This labeling and Christians being jerks about...Wes,<BR/>This labeling and Christians being jerks about it has been going on for quite some time.<BR/><BR/>In the fourth century, Athanasius, the great champion of faith in Christ as fully God, was Bishop of Alexandria in Egypt, and very well loved by the people. <BR/><BR/>About ten years after he died, the bishopric of Alexandria was bestowed on a man named Theophilus. He was a man of intense temperament, and ruthless and violent in the pursuit of what <B>he</B> thought was his duty. Basically a jerkwad. In 391 A.D., he went to the Goverenment (Thank God we have a religious freedom clause) and got the Emperor's consent to destroy pagan temples, as well as the monastaries of <B>monks whose views differed from his own</B>. <BR/><BR/>His feast day is on the Egyptian (Coptic) and the Syrian calendars of Saints, but not on most eastern or any western ones. <BR/><BR/>In the end, Theophilus has been considered unpleasant but orthodox (Right but Repulsive).Monk-in-Traininghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587433183262341491noreply@blogger.com