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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
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Subject: Re: The Evil Media
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 12:54:03 EDT
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> > Remember, a lot of good Christians are also agnostics!
> Can you elaborate a little on exactly what you mean here?  

Well, I'll try.  I suppose I was being a little flippant, or vague
anyway -- but the point I was making was that being SURE of all
our faith all the time is a blessing not given to very many of us.
Plenty of Christians spend as much time wrestling with doubt, and
carrying on in spite of the dry times, as we do basking in blissful
certainty.  
   I was talking just yesterday with a friend who was describing
her progress from extreme fundamentalist Christianity to what I
would consider a more moderate and mature Christianity. One
important incident she mentioned came when she was a student at a
Bible college. Some questions occurred to her, so she
put them and writing and circulated them to some fellow-students
and teachers. There was outrage that anyone would
even want to discuss *questions* !
   But it seems to me that the way to deal with questions is to
acknowledge that they exist -- then and only then can we think
about them, discuss them, pray about them.

   Chris