So you’re ignoring my clarification then? Nice.

…and that your wrongness to all appearances stems from your hatred of America as a community rather than its actually not being a community.

I don’t hate America. You’re wrong.

That you are wrong to assert that America is not a community, and that your wrongness to all appearances stems from your hatred of America as a community rather than its actually not being a community.

I agree with you on the way abortion is used in these sorts of discussions.

Michael, by now you should know that abortion pops up like the Spanish Inquisition in the Monty Python bit. It’s like Kevin Bacon, too, only it usually takes fewer degrees.

It goes like this /sarcasm on (I’m adding the Hitler analogy on purpose, to check another box)

“Hitler murdered six million Jews !”
- “But he was against abortion !”

or
“Bush has started an unnecessary war that’s cost us billions and killed thousands. Our economy is in the tank and we’ve lost all credibility in combating a future real threat.”
- “But he’s against abortion !”

Fools to the left of me, jokers to the right…

To be more precise, I am not denying the “community-hood” of america, but arguing that the united states is not a particular type of community.

What is your point exactly? Is there a point? Or are you simply seeking to conjure up the emotions linked to abortion to bolster your own position? It’s a bizarre association to make, unless a mere emotional response is what you’re after.

(Not all pro-abortion arguments deny the personhood of the fetus, by the way.)

To be more clear what Christ is talking about and teaching about has nothing to with a supposed “foundational myth of violence and the sacrifices of soldiering which parody the Cross”

Right: you must negate the community-hood of America in order for your argument to hang together. Eye roll or not, that is closely analogous to negating the personhood of the foetus in order for the pro-abortion argument to hold together.

I just noticed this was not addressed. Matthew is realting what Jesus said that had personal significance to him no doubt as a person. Christ is basically say as to the scene here that the Pharisees’ are reacting too is .Christ is saying e want to be merciful, not to condemn and that he wants to save the sinner not sacrifice him

As this comment is largely unintelligible, I suppose that part of my post remains “unaddressed.”

But obviously this is the subject of my post, so why say that the post is in bad taste?