Thanks for your measured response, Bob.
I did rankle to think that, as Robin himself wrote, unitarian belief is - not an affront to a set of beliefs - but a betrayal of the very Gospel itself. And I repeat that I do think that the statement - not Robin himself ! whom I respect and have profited immensely from - is asinine, in its sense of ‘senseless’. I’m not calling anyone an ass. But it is senseless to name as a BETRAYER OF THE GOSPEL someone who disagrees with an interpretation, not of scripture, but of Athanasius or whoever.
I myself am not a unitarian, nor am I strictly ‘orthodox’ - a term which means whatever a person wants it to mean. But neither would I call anyone a betrayer of the very gospel of Christ unless I knew that person, or that person had stated some grossly distorted moral position.
I won’t be bullied, and calling me or anyone a betrayer of the Gospel - THAT is a rant.
Again: I’m not calling names. I’m pointing out a basic, fundamental problem in ‘orthodox’ attitude. I have fallen way way short of calling anyone a betrayer of the gospel.
I mean, which is the real rant?
I admire you Bob for your restraint, and no doubt I should not have used that one word ‘asinine’ though I did not mean it to apply to any person.