Getting the hang of this blogging thing

There's a lot of "Let's you and him fight'' in this blogging stuff.
I post a little something and then watch people go at each other like Sunnis and Shiites at a potluck supper.
It's a sight to behold. Occasionally, there's a glancing blow to something I've said, but most of the time it's like I'm not even there.
A blog posted lasted week titled "The chicken and egg of faith and politics'' has garnered quite a bit of response (at least as far my blog goes) and my, oh my, has the fur been flying.
I do find some things interesting:
The unbeliever "Ray'' springs to my defense at least when he's not belittling the hard-won faith of others ; "Margaret'' is a voice of reason and then will suddenly suggest that "immorality is a word that Mr. Riley scoffs at, I think... '' as if I'm some sort of melodrama villain who ties young widows to the railroad tracks just to get the deed to the homestead. (That's the government these days - abuse of eminent domain and all that)
Then there's the guy who raises the question of whether I drink alcohol at lunch. (Look, I'm just as much of a "it's five o'clock somewhere'' as the next imbiber but I bet you could count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've had a beer at lunch when I have to go back to work. Which is saying something -- I've had editors where a mid-day bump might seem to lesser folks an essential requirement for going back to the office.) He also wonders why I haven't risen to his challenge, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the challenge is. Both liberals and conservatives can point to their faith as undergirding their political positions. That's all I said.
It's interesting that a lot of this comes down to sex, as if the most important thing the sovereign creator of the universe has on his omniscient mind is making sure where everybody's naughty bits are all the livelong day.
There's a lot of sinful sex going on in consecrated marriage beds. When a husband or wife engages in sex with his or her lawfully wedded spouse and reduces the other to an object in pursuit of his or her own pleasure, that's sin. Sin is always more than an act devoid of context.
My personal ethic falls somewhere between the old adage, "You should try everything once, except for incest and clog dancing'' on the one hand and "let's stone the gays, and make women keep their heads covered in church while we're at it'' on the other. What rules are eternally inviolate and which are culture bound?
Ethics is a tough business and anybody who thinks it's easy, even with the Bible open in front of them, just isn't thinking straight.