Tunesmith:

You are completely correct, but there is no arguing intellectually on issues of faith and its concomitant convictions. This may take some getting used to, but it is a sad and solid truth about the minds of men. Most of the people around here who are capable of doing this wee analysis have done it long ago (we tend to be long in the tooth in these parts for some reason, with a few brilliant exceptions....). So I think that's why annamill was enquiring about your age. Raising this discovery to the level of Exciting News is kind of like re-opening an old discussion for many of us.

Authoritarian and dogmatic thought is always unpleasant no matter what its purview, but, on the other hand, most Christians are pretty tolerant and those that try to work the Real Deal really do strive to better things. So p'raps mutual tolerance is a good idea in most case...

Most of John's posts are kinda hard to understand, to put it mildly -- don't take it personally.

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