[Peace-discuss] A Christian heresy

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ah, that took me a moment, until I realized there were several ways to be pied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales


On 5/20/11 1:46 AM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
> The title was great.
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> I used to think that Milton Supman was the piper...
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> On 2011-5-20 8:59, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> Of course "pied" can mean "jumbled, confused" (even drunk) as well as 
>> "multi-colored."
>>
>> (And I said I thought the title of the article was clever - it is - but of 
>> course it's quite false, as the piece makes clear.)
>>
>> On 5/19/11 7:06 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
>>> Rapture theology is a "damnable heresy" as Simon Peter might have said in so 
>>> many words.
>>> I can imagine his actual description was quite emphatic.
>>>
>>> The pervasiveness of the rapture theology among supposedly literate people 
>>> is difficult to reconcile.
>>>
>>> People seem to like following a speckled guy with a flute.
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>>> On 2011-5-20 7:41, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>>> Heresy is in fact an ambiguous term in Christianity. Strictly speaking, 
>>>> it's a sin - a conscious rejection of the known truth (like saying that 
>>>> Obama is really trying to end the war in the Mideast). But it's used more 
>>>> generally to mean a serious rejection of important Christian doctrine, 
>>>> arising from misinformation and/or stupidity. In this sense, "rapture 
>>>> theology" is heresy.
>>>>
>>>> (And the title of this article is great.) 
>>>> <http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/120934-god-hates-faqs/>
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