Posted by Lou Pilder on April 26, 2005, at 20:37:51 [reposted on April 27, 2005, at 0:04:03 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Lou's reply to Dinah- » Lou Pilder, posted by Dinah on April 26, 2005, at 19:59:50
> No Lou. I wasn't saying that. I was responding to this quote from your post.
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> "Since you realize that, is not there the potential, then, for others here to think that the statements in question {have the potential} to mean that the Jews were being condemned?"
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> My answer meant that I thought there was the potential that almost anything could be interpreted to mean almost anything, but that doesn't mean that that was what they were intended to mean or what they did mean.
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> I hope that clarifies.
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Dinah,
In your above post,you wrote that you thought that anything could be interpreted to mean almost anything, but that doesn't mean that was what they were intended to mean or what they did mean.
It is not my intention to discover the intentions of any poster as to what they write.
As to what they did mean, could not the context offer a clue?
The poster offers the christian book of Matthew, chapter 23. The chapter writes,[...Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees...ye blind guides...].
This forum allows this to be posted and I am not requesting that you write a determination as to its acceptability or not because it has been determined to be acceptable here already. But as to if the intentions of the poster have to be a factor in what others could think as to what the statement says, could not the statement in and of itself have the potential to arrouse antisemitic feelings? And is it necessary to get the poster's point accross to cite Mathew 23? And if the poster is saying that Jesus called the scribes and pharisees blind guides, could it not be that others could also think that the scribes and pharisees were blind guides?
I am requesting that you redirect this discussion to the administrative forum.
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
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