(fictitious angry man?) (Aug 22, 07) MOUW OFTEN CRITICIZES THE ANONYMOUS "ANGRY MAN" WHILE MOUW IS ALWAYS CIVIL "of what he said was on target, but at one point he seriously misrepresented what the group believed Later I approached him privately. I told him that I admired his effort to warn his fellow Christians against the group’s false teachings. But on one key point he was attributing to them something they had explicity denied teaching. There is enough bad stuff to criticize in what the group believed, I said, without accusing them of something that is not really a part of their system. The leader responded angrily: “You intellectuals have the luxury of making all of these nice distinctions! But I don’t have time for all your polite stuff! My job is to warn God’s people against false teachers. These folks are false teachers and they don’t deserve to be treated fairly!” He had a sneer on his face when he said that last word, “fairly.” http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/?m=200708

is the "angry man" that mouw encounters a reality or fable ? does mouw have an agenda for evoking in the readers mind the image of an "angry white male" who he must confront like a theological hero to remind him about being civil, honest, & fair...as mouw, of course, is the epitome of such, right ? do we ever get to meet the angry man that mouw so often encounters & must "tame" ? a video? picture? name? oh, I forgot, mouw is too civil to name such a person...he does his admonishing in private, right ? or is this angry man non-existent? (Aug 22, 07) MOUW OFTEN CRITICIZES THE ANONYMOUS "ANGRY MAN" WHILE MOUW IS ALWAYS CIVIL "of what he said was on target, but at one point he seriously misrepresented what the group believed Later I approached him privately. I told him that I admired his effort to warn his fellow Christians against the group’s false teachings. But on one key point he was attributing to them something they had explicity denied teaching. There is enough bad stuff to criticize in what the group believed, I said, without accusing them of something that is not really a part of their system. The leader responded angrily: “You intellectuals have the luxury of making all of these nice distinctions!  But  I don’t have time for all your polite stuff! My job is to warn God’s people against false teachers. These folks are false teachers and they don’t deserve to be treated fairly!” He had a sneer on his face when he said that last word, “fairly.”
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