WAS Re: [Leica] Re: Evil religion..NOW, Can we take this to the Forum

[imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)]

All ways love the elaborate OFF Topic critiques of Off topic subjects  
which further push the Off topic off topic. Ya godda luv us ;-)
Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com



On May 18, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Marc James Small 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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