here is a link to a response which a regular commenter on my blog gave to such a drive-by commenter<\/a>. I really appreciated both its content and its tone, and so wanted to share it.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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There are many people in our time who claim to follow Jesus and to be seeking to emulate him. But it is clear that not everyone who has adopted such an approach to life has given thought to its implications for comments left on blogs. I wonder whether this is a lack of attention on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42,67,96],"tags":[1249,1253,1254,1259,2058,2094,5677,9430,13925],"class_list":["post-8924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblioblogging-bible","category-humor","category-new-testament-bible","category-technology","tag-blog","tag-bloggers","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-comments","tag-computers","tag-jesus","tag-preaching","tag-wwjd"],"yoast_head":"\n
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