Cheryl Schatz

Dave,
What I have found is that men (and women) who fear the egal position are the ones who have to stay on their own home territory where they can control the opposition’s argument. Both you and I along with many others have gone onto comp blogs and boards and we have dialogged in a respectful manner while the ones who act out their fear through having to mock the opposition will not come onto our territory. Why? Because they cannot win in a balanced venue where personal attacks against a commenter are not allowed. Rather than winning an argument with the power of their position, they have to “win” on their own territory by mocking, attacking and silencing the opposing view. I don’t have any problems in naming some of the worst behavior and that is the attack mode that is common on the Bayly blog. While they want to come across as godly Christians who follow Scripture, by their actions they really are bullies and they enjoy belittling people and calling in other “attack dogs” who can really rip at a person’s soul. Once we identify this kind of behavior, we can follow the admonition to avoid those who cause strife. Those who enjoy ripping at the sheep as a sport often will have a “form” of godliness with an outward claim of knowing the Lord Jesus but with their actions, they deny the Shepherd of the sheep by attacking His sheep. The power of the gospel is peace and brotherly love and affection which is never evidenced toward an egalitarian who wanders into their blog world. If one disagrees with them on their blog, that one will find out what “lording it over others” really means. It isn’t pretty.