Who's shrugging?
and who's a fundie?
I wasn't labeling any individuals. I was remarking on the nature of your response. It just happens to be a fundie cliche.
Set a clock by it. Apologists will come out with this cliche anytime a publicity-garnering, sin-denouncing Bible thumper turns out to be a fraud (an old slapstick act itself that is encored with tiring regularity). It happens anytime an ancient Israelite hero in the Bible does something no Christian can condone.
It's a double standard. If one of 'Those People' does something wrong, it's proof that 'they' are devoted to sin, blind, and spawn of the Antichrist. Their only hope is to convert to 'our' religion.
But if one of 'Our People' does something wrong, well... that's no big deal. People are human. So what?
The problem with acting this way is that it reveals the religion of the speaker to be morally bankrupt.
If people do what they do because they are only human and it's no big deal, why have a religion in the first place? Why bother anyone about adopting yours? Let people do what people do. Let God shrug everything off for everybody, just as his followers do for people they happen to like.
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