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From: Phil.Scovell@f810.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Phil Scovell)
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Subject: Re: Responce For Help
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Date: 20 Sep 90 15:57:18 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hello Martie,

The problems you described with church and family are so common I am 
beginning to believe it is a disease.  I have been full time in ministry 
work for fifteen years and it is nearly the same every where I go.  I have 
heard these same stories from blind people dozens of times and still am 
unable to understand it, especially from the Christian community.  I can 
tell stories which have happened to me personally which are similar to yours 
and so can many others on blinktalk.  The Christian community is even more 
blind to the blind than the secular community and I am not for sure why 
this is.  I know it isn't because the blind in churches haven't been trying 
as many messages in blinktalk will confirm.  Pastors, in particular, are a 
strange lot and I've pastored a church myself.  The bottom line is self and 
the unwillingness to practice what they preach.  I have only been in two 
churches myself where this wasn't a problem and I have spoken in over a 
hundred churches across the country.  A small fraction I admit but the 
problem is common.  I am sorry about the loss of your mother but I am even 
more sorry that your pastor was so busy he couldn't minister to your needs. 
I'd take him out and shoot him for you but another would quickly take his 
place.  They grow on trees.  Don't give up though.  There are still some 
real people out there.

Phil.  
 

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