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Subject: WAS Re: [Leica] Re: Evil religion..NOW,Can we take this to the Forum
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri May 19 07:25:58 2006

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!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) (WAS Re: [Leica] Re: Evil religion..NOW,Can we take this to the Forum)
In reply to: Message from msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small) (WAS Re: [Leica] Re: Evil religion..NOW,Can we take this to the Forum)