Reminds me of a story...
Back in the freewheeling crazy days of the FFF me and ALAYWIFE attended a church in Huntington West Virginia where our own resident evangelist and escapee from IFB(x)-dom at that time known as Marine (Tim Lee) was going to be preaching. After having attended the service, in which Marine delivered an absolutely fantastic sermon and many were saved (ironically, after an altar call
) where he made several sermon comments that I thought were interesting about calvinistic doctrine. When I got back home later that day I decided to stir the FFF pot, which was so unlike me in those days
, and asked the forum's collective genius their opinion on a couple of quotes. The author of those quotes were, unbeknownst to the FFF faithful, directly lifted from Tim's sermon. I knew that the quotes would serve to trigger the Freebirds, and it worked to perfection including and snaring one of our big birds Dr Bob. He made some typically biting comments about the quotes and after enough folks had chimed in piling on I revealed who the author was and the back peddling started frantically! I took a lot of heat for that because Marine was so beloved and respected that people felt embarrassed for having criticized him so harshly, but it was only done to show that people can often be hypercritical, and on the FFF that was so extremely true at that time but it needed to be highlighted. I didn't do it just merely for sport, but to say let's be gracious when we have differences of opinion with others.