Re: Magic Menstrual Mummies

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Well, challenge him on the specifics then. Don't just act all offended 
> that he believes differently than you do, trying to get him to back 
> down and apologize.
>
> **I didn’t say anything of the sort.  My only personalization was my 
> saying that I felt his tone was arrogant since he implies that anyone 
> not similarly enlightened as himself is ignorant.

So you don't want to dispute facts or opinion, you want to dispute "tone".

***in a sense, yes. I can dispute the arrogance of the presentation without
disputing the facts, though I do dispute those to a degree.

>> like all other major sects, the Orthodox have plenty of people who 
>> will dispute their being the right path doctrinally.
>
> Sure. And in a sense I'm also protecting people's right to think the 
> that Orthodox are backwards, outmoded, out-of-date, whatever! I am not 
> offended by that, people can think what they want.
>
> ***I am fine with that, but would you be ok with someone saying that a 
> person born EO was born ignorant of the reality of Christ because of 
> their hidebound and entrenched adherence to a false faith?  I doubt 
> it.  That goes too far, and is insulting.

The only word I'd have a problem with in that characterization is "false".

***Well, I personally would dislike any representation that is so conclusive
and dismissive, so I guess we disagree there.

> Do you believe one "brand" is *more* right in any regard?
>
> **these days?  No.

Well, lay off those who do believe then.

***in a word, NO.  Did you just assume I am not a believer?  Simply because
I don’t find one denomination to be persuasive?

*** Simply because I am not a card carrying member of one faith does not
inhibit my having faith.


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