[Peace-discuss] RE: The Christmas He Dreamed for All of Us

[C. G. Estabrook]

"Etherealness"? Is that the problem, Mort?  Remember that a
majority of the members of the Christian movement are not
Fundamentalists. (Of course, as with any organization that's
been around for "2000 years of experience," the majority of
its members are dead.)  But your theological reputation
continues to grow, and not just through the pages of the
News-Gazette, when you raise such subtle questions as, "Is
spirituality the same as salvation?" (Damned if I know.) 

It does however surprise me that this is at least the second
time that you've seemed to call for an end to this discussion.
Do you in fact think it inappropriate?  Why?  I would have
said that the problem with the discussion with the Pentecostal
vet is that it didn't go on long enough or involve enough
people.  I think we need more of what you nicely characterize
as "fruitful arguing."  

Regards, CGE

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:37:07 -0600
>From: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>  
>
>There seems to be no fruitful arguing with fundamentalist
believers;  
>they simply follow their own "Little Red Book", and nothing
that 2000  
>years of experience teaches or that the evolution of knowledge  
>reveals dissuades them.
>
>IMHO, there is too much weird (to me) etherealness [God,
salvation,  
>saviour,…?] and distortion [AWARE members are not interested in  
>dialog with church members?]  or evasion of substantial
issues (Is  
>"spirituality" the same as "salvation"?) in this discussion
for it to  
>be worth the time of AWARE. It recalls to mind the problem that  
>"presence" members had in trying to talk to the veteran
outside the  
>Urbana Assembly of God two Sundays ago. So I hope that  this  
>argumentation will not be prolonged.
>