Accusations or Questions?

Accusations or Questions? (11-15-06)

by Keith Slough (Kannapolis, North Carolina)

Keith Slough writes:

11/15/2006 5:33:29 PM

You don't NOW keep the PAGAN HOLIDAYS do you??????? That is disappointing. Keith

Darwin & Laura Lee write:

11/16/2006 6:41:02 AM

Dear Keith and the rest of this list,

We do not keep secular holidays, we keep God's Holy Days. The feeds that we have hooked up to these lists are all mostly secular, meaning most of these people more than likely keep Christmas, Easter and Sunday Church. I believe that the item you are referring to is an ad that came from "Answers in Genesis". We do not run "Answers in Genesis", someone else does. We have it running through here for the Archeology Information they do send. We will try to get the ads removed (at least the big ones) if possible, but if not, please ignore and delete them as you would any other Christmas ad. Thank you. Darwin & Laura Lee

Keith Slough writes:

11/16/2006 9:03:57 AM

I saw your ads and........... I hope you are not now promoting CHRISTMAS....do you now observe the PAGAN Holidays with the Worldwide Church of Tkach?

Laura Lee writes:

11/16/2006 9:57:41 AM

Dear Keith Slough,

I believe that you have a problem. What are you doing accusing us of something which is not true. Where is your proof?

I already sent a public email to the "Archeology Exchange" email list in regard to your public email in regard to this. Did you not see that the ad in regard to Christmas came from "Answers in Genesis"? Or might you be blind?

Perhaps in the future you should read the ad before you start accusing people of things which are not true. As I have tried to tell you more than once, the feeds which are hooked up to many of our email lists are secular. Most of the people providing these feeds keep Christmas, Easter and Sunday. If you know of some Sabbath Keepers who can provide these feeds for our lists, then by all means please let us know so we might change over to them. In the mean time I suggest that you read the email before you open your mouth and spew out these kinds of false accusations against people (us or others).

Keith Slough writes:

11/18/2006 2:17:06 PM

Dear Brethren:

You wrote:

Dear Keith Slough,

I believe that you have a problem. What are you doing accusing us of something which is not true. Where is your proof?

If you read my email carefully, you will also see I did not accuse you of anything. I asked a question. SATAN is the accuser of the brethren. I did not accuse but asked a question. I'm glad to know your answer. In this day of spiritual declension and Church of God APOSTASY, naturally, we want to know, so thank you for answering -- however you could have been kinder in the response. But again, thank you anyway for responding to my inquiry. (Asking a question is not making an accusation). Keith

Laura Lee writes:

11/19/2006 7:45 AM

Dear Keith Slough,

Perhaps you should go back and reread your own emails to us: The first thing you said on a public list was as follows: "You don't NOW keep the PAGAN HOLIDAYS do you??????? That is disappointing. Keith" The first part is a question, but the second part is an accusation. The question was: "You don't NOW keep the PAGAN HOLIDAYS do you???????" The accusation was: "That is disappointing." When you make us guilty before we answer as you did, it is an accusation. You made this accusation on a public unmoderated forum using an advertisement for Christmas which was clearly marked as originating from "Answers in Genesis" and not from us.

Even though I answered your accusation publicly, approximately 2 hours later you sent me yet another email with a question, an accusation and sarcasm all mixed in. You said: "I saw your ads and........... I hope you are not now promoting CHRISTMAS....do you now observe the PAGAN Holidays with the Worldwide Church of Tkach?" The accusation was: "I saw your ads and..........." (The ad(s) did not originate from us, they originated from "Answers in Genesis" which is a feed we use to send out Archeological Information to our unmoderated Archeology list.) The statement was: "I hope you are not now promoting CHRISTMAS...." The question was: "do you now observe the PAGAN Holidays with the Worldwide Church of Tkach?" The sarcasm was: "with the Worldwide Church of Tkach?"

You then sent me an email two days later telling me you were not accusing us of anything, and yet there are the accusations in your own emails. You are claiming you only asked a question and that asking a question is not an accusation. If you word a question or a statement in a certain way they can be accusations and yours certainly were the way they were worded.

You also accused me of not sending you a kind answer the second time. Since I had already answered your accusation once in a kind way and you had ignored it, I made my second answer to you very short and to the point. If you viewed my answer to you as unkind, I am sorry, I did not word it that way with the intent to be unkind to you. I however did not view either one of your question/accusation/sarcasm emails as kind. If you were only asking a question because you wanted to know, then the wording should have been something like follows: Do you now keep Pagan Holidays? or Are you now promoting Christmas? or something similar. The question should have been asked without accusation or sarcasm and would have been far kinder than what you did write.

You also claim that the accuser of the Brethren is Satan and you are absolutely correct on that point. So does Satan then manifest himself to the Brethren as a cute little red demon with pitchfork in hand to accuse the Brethren or does he influence the Brethren to accuse each other?

My thought is that if one wants a kind answer then write a kind question void of accusations and sarcasm. If you are unable to read the email ad as being clearly marked as being from "Answers in Genesis", knowing full well as you do that the Archeology Exchange email list is unmoderated and if you cannot see your own mistake of accusing us when it is pointed out to you, then you are clearly blind and do have a problem. Hope this will help you in understanding both Biblical principle and your own deception via Satan's Influence. I have tried to be kind to you in this letter, unfortunately most people do not take correction as a kind act from someone who truly loves you and wants you to succeed in making it into the Kingdom of God as I and Darwin want you to.