Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You da man, B.D., you da man. B. D. Colen wrote: >Oh, I get it - First tell everyone to shut up - then run on on the LUG for >34 lines in which you express your personal beliefs, drop names so hard they >crack pavement, make your political and religious arguments, and THEN, ask >that all responses be taken to the Forum or, even better, sent to you in >private, where no one will see them, or your responses. In other words, >freedom of expression for Mr. conservative and no one else. > >LOL > > >On 5/18/06 9:56 PM, "Marc James Small" <msmall@aya.yale.edu> wrote: > > > >>Would you people PLEASE quit this talk. It has nothing to do with Leica >>and it just clogs the LUG with bogus comments. >> >>I am a conservative (that is, I am a believer in the Apostolic Succession) >>Christian but I also follow Matthew's charge that we lead by example and >>not by insistence. That has nothing to do with this other than to >>establish my doctrinal distance from those such as the Pope of Lynchburg or >>the son of my late acquaintance, Senator Robertson of Virginia. >> >>You folks with the quick condemnation ought to spend some time imbibing the >>details of Christain theology. I would suggest that you start with Dean >>Pelikan's five-volume set on the development of Christian theology; I met >>Jaroslav Pelikan twice while he was writing this and he put his best >>efforts into it, and a fine and neutral volume it is. I have little time >>for radical Protestant thought but, at the same time, Pelikan acknowledged >>the efficacy of the Baptists and Methodists and southern Lutherans in the >>growth of Christian doctrince, a position I probably would not have taken >>had I written a similar work. >> >>Quick condemnation with a flick comment is not a response to the points >>these New Age Gospelers are raising, nor is dismissal. They are winning >>over increasingly large staples of middle America, and you guys want to >>respond with a quick quip. This will not work. You have to know the Bible >>and the doctrine and the talk to counter them, and they ought to be >>countered -- again, I am about as conservative a Christian as you will meet >>and find the doings in the US Episcopal Church more than a bit stinky, but >>that is not of which I am speaking. >> >>I hate all tyranny. I detest ideologic tyrannies more than any others, as >>I will be the fellow who makes the cute comment and finds himself at the >>wrong end of a 9mm Baretta. I reject all tyranny over the soul of man, as >>Jefferson, from his rather warped viewpoint, suggested. >> >>I do not subscribe to the Leica Forum. I did so, briefly, after its >>creation, but discovered it to be a hell-hole of statist folks whose >>primary interest was to crank up my taxes and to reduce my freedoms and >>liberties, so I rapidly left their number. But this discussion really >>ought to be taken over there. >> >>Those wishing to respond to this are asked to do so in private e-mail and >>not to the List. Those who wish to vent in response are asked to do so on >>the Forum and not on the LUG. >> >>Marc >> >>msmall@aya.yale.edu >>Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >