This post is primarily for people who want clarification from my Follow Friday tweet about JIDF. But if you read it before seeing that #FF tweet, then it still clarifies and the link to follow if you choose is at the bottom of the post.

Here’s the exchange I will refer to throughout this post. I suggest you either read it first or this post first…but don’t try to read them concurrently. Below is the impression I got; it’s no commentary on the person or the organization, just the behavior I encountered.

I caught this conversation quite by accident @JIDF (Jewish Internet Defense Force, Run by founder David Appletree) had with @ConchoQueen (someone I didn’t run across until this exchange). What you see is what I saw. I chimed in when I saw JIDF say he would rather “burn in hell” than “accept Jesus as anything other than a regular guy.”

I saw this as an ad hominem attack on Christians – or at least a rude and unnecessary punch. You don’t need to use that kind of language to say you don’t have any intention of following Christ. In the leadership position David is in, relative to his stated purpose for the JIDF (covered later), it’s probably something you would just want to let pass. Imagine William Bennett saying “I would rather burn in Hell than accept that Moses was (more…)