Really? By that logic you shouldn't be criticizing Bell since he's a different denomination too. And frankly I think what I said was accurate, bigotry by definition is a behavior of someone who's intolerant of beliefs other than their own. You chose to accept the "truth" as told by someone else, not the source, and then you labeled his book "twisted" and "trash".
So, who exactly "came out of the gate nasty"?
I run a search for Bell's name once in a while because there are a lot of ignorant people on CF who love to slander people like him with no basis for the accusations being made, and with no understanding of anything about him other than what they read on Joe Schmoe's blog. And people on blogs can write whatever they want without any proof or accountability, meaning they can say incredible untrue, inaccurate, hateful and hurtful things.
If his teaching just isn't a flavor someone enjoys, that's cool, I can respect that. But heresy hunting the guy with no first-hand insight into his teaching is wrong on many levels.
I've had a Non-Denominational icon since I registered, I only changed it cause I was considering whether CMA falls under ND or "other church".