Hi Linear,

CTD is using a broad term here for anybody that maybe "fooled" by believing something or "someone" that maybe wrong....this is not a sin. How many of us have been fooled by buying into something that was false or not completely true? He hasn't used any name calling here at all. Why turn it around to mean something he didn't say? Even if it's a veiled insult, he still hasn't called you a fool.

I honestly believe that falsey accusing people is probably much closer to being sinful than a broad term for people buying into deception as being fooled. In fact, the bible itself uses the term when it says "professing to be wise, they become fools"....so we have to understand the context in which it is used and that the comment here was not a single personal name calling insult.

You have decided to read into what he has said, turn it into a personal insult that he called you a fool, and then take offense. Why resort to this? It's unnecessary and looks like you're trying to find something in CTD's posts to accuse him of doing to you personally....

There's much worse around to take offense at than a comment like this.