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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: An interesting juxtaposition
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 17:57:06 EST
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> >>>> I used to use readnews and just switched to rn.  After looking at an
> >>>> article in the recent debate between Rich Rosen and Laura Creighton
> >>>> about whether Rich should be posting in net.religion.christian, I hit
> >>>> the return and saw:
> >>>> 
> >>>> End of newsgroup net.religion.christian.
> >>>> 
> >>>> See Rich?  Even the *computer* is on Laura's side! :-)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Isn't it amazing how some people, in an effort to convince (themselves and
> >>>others) of the correctness of their views, will resort to the most brazenly
> >>>teleological arguments of the shoddiest kine in support...
> >>>
> >>
> >>It was a JOKE, Rich.  (Sheesh, you try inject a little humor...)
> >>	Scott Deerwester
> 
> > And here I thought it was only fundamentalists like me who
> > were literalists!  [PAUL DUBOIS]
> 
> I knew my good friend Paul Dubois would eventually come through and show
> what a true Christian he is, by condemning Christian bigotry as being
> truly anti-Christian.  I knew that *he* wasn't the type to avoid the
> whole issue by dredging up some month-old article that I had already
> responded to just for the purpose of poking fun.  Thanks, Paul.  I knew
> I could count on you.  (P.S.  And my response WASN'T a joke???  Says something
> about your own "literalism"...  Oh, and where *was* that response of yours?)

My response to WHAT?  Christian bigotry articles I never read?  Well,
I haven't said anything about this Mr. Black (I assume that's who you're
referring to), but I will now:  I have nothing to say.

Reason:  If I condemn it, I condemn something I didn't read.  I know
how you'll responsd to that by your treatment of Dave Brown.

	If I don't condemn it, you won't like that either.  Well, I'm
not going to say anything at all, pro or con.

Actually, I will say something.  I gather Black thinks the holocaust
didn't happen.  I think that he is incorrect.

As for dredging up month-old articles, that's because I didn't read this
group for a while, so I started at the beginning of what I didn't read.
So what?

I admit I thought your response was serious.  My apologies.  I thought
so because it sounded exactly like what you write when you're serious.

Oh, well.  You lose some, and you lose some...
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