Religious People Are Vicious

Some day, I am going to publish a web page compiling the insults I’ve received at the hands of religious people over the years.

It is going to be a long list.

Last week I wrote a short post that, if compressed to 4 sentences, might be summarized like this:

Here is something one of our leaders said about us: [quote].
It sounds like he’s saying [ugly thing].
Am I misinterpreting?
If not, this hurts, since said leader is a longtime friend.

Since then, in about some 80+ comments, I’ve been told the following. For fun, inhale deep, try saying them all in one breath.

Fed through Random.org to ensure non-biased ordering:

1. I am letting anger rule my heart.
2. I am offering speculation that leads to slander.
3. I was outright attacking Boaz Michael.
4. I am not holding back my animalistic soul.
5. I am responsible for insults being thrown.
6. I don’t want to be confused by the facts.
7. I am just bashing people.
8. I am selfish.
9. I am not following Matthew 18.
10. I am voicing my bias.
11. I am speaking any way I want.
12. I am offering hurtful speculation.
13. I am incredibly arrogant.
14. I am supersessionist in regards to the Christian church.
15. I am allowing my yetzer hara (evil inclination) free reign of my tongue.
16. I am letting anger rule my writings.
17. I am not acting like a disciple of Yeshua.
18. I am not being charitable.
19. I am not using my intelligence the way HaShem desires.
20. I am unwilling to hear past my own subjective reading.
21. I am wrong.
22. I’m going to stay here no matter what, even if I’m wrong.
23. I should delete my post.
24. I can’t even pick up the phone and resolve this.
25. I have not grown up.
26. I am taking this way out of context.
27. My post was shocking and embarrassing.
28. I am diminishing Israel.
29. I’m offended because my community is supersessionist.
30. I don’t want my mind to be changed.
31. I am not acting like a child of God.
32. I am mischaracterizing Boaz Michael, and this is a common problem on my blog.
33. I am responsible for people being hurt.
34. I am self-fulfilling.
35. I am choosing high blog activity over Yeshua’s rulings.
36. I am an opposer of Israel.
37. I should be ashamed.
38. My idea of “Israel” exists only in my own mind.
39. I am attacking Boaz because my feelings were hurt.
40. I believe in my heart I have the right, nay, responsibility to interpret Torah as I see fit.
41. My thinking is fundamentally supersessionist.
42. I am not engaging in brotherhood.
43. I am guilty of lashon hara (evil speech).
44. I have an un-regenerated heart.
45. I am leaving behind all civility.
46. I am attacking Boaz Michael in public.
47. I am an enemy of Israel.
48. I could have handled this better.
49. I am preaching another gospel.
50. I am engaging in chinat sinam (baseless hatred).
51. I have not learned anything from Boaz Michael’s humility.
52. I am stooping to a level of non-objectiveness.
53. My post is simply an attack.
54. I am typing cute and witty insults.
55. I am responsible for people being full of anger.
56. I am a cry baby.
57. I am showing a lack of scholarship.
58. I am taking this to the extreme.
59. I should have dealt with this issue privately.
60. My assumptions are wrong.
61. I am arrogant enough to believe I have a corner on religion.
62. My post is fruitless.
63. My post is the reason people turn away from the Messianic movement.
64. I am being inflammatory.
65. I am an enemy of Israel, just not in the sense of “we hate you and want to kill you”.
66. I am harming the Messianic community.
67. I am childish.
68. I am not being professional.
69. I am stirring the pot.
70. I am acting like a novice.
71. I am toratically (SP) committing a sin.
72. I have chosen to make this personal.
73. I am grossily (SP) misinterpreting Boaz’s words.
74. I was disrespectful.
75. I am supersessionist in regards to Israel.
76. I am making fun of Boaz Michael.
77. I am reaping rebukes, and deservedly so.
78. I am not loving mankind.
79. My post is damaging the body of Messiah.
80. I am not keeping my soul in check.
81. I should close the comments to the post.
82. I am using theological discussion as an excuse to act out my sinful nature.
83. I have an understanding of the Bible shaped by an already-made-up mind.
84. I am unwilling to believe any interpretation other than my own.
85. I diminish the purpose of Yeshua.
86. I am editorializing.
87. I could have been more constructive.
88. I am saying things Yeshua would not have said.

And that was just from one post!

Fine blog reader, this blog, Kineti, is the oldest individual Messianic blog on the web – just imagine how many insults there have been over the 7 years of running this blog!

About that post, if you’re wondering how it resolved, I spoke to Boaz Michael over the phone twice Friday. Then several private emails. The end result is, I did one thing that was inaccurate, and two things that were accurate. Details coming later this week, stay tuned.