Originally Posted by Bex
Well RAZD, depends on what you consider insults. Are they insults if they are deserved, and provoked or long past due? I feel it's become a touch more fair recently.

I guess their (and maybe your?) actions were not guided by the following:

Originally Posted by Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.


or

Originally Posted by Romans 12:17-21
17Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. 18If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"[d]says the Lord. 20On the contrary:
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."[e] 21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.


I am not innocent of the need to follow this same advice, but I am trying to curb my desire to shoot back. If you feel that I am not doing a good job of this in the future, you have my permission to remind me of it.

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke