[Vision2020] Freeze Church DVD mailing

[Darrell Keim]

I watched the video.  Make no mistake, Paul-this video does not explain
their beliefs on anything but abortion.  Nor does it back those beliefs
with scripture.  It is strictly an anti-abortion video.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> "The same as all the rest of the crackpots in the area that claim to have
> that ultimate truth that no one else does, and if you don't believe
> everything they say (and tacitly: give them money), then you are SOL for
> eternity."
>
> You seem to take great pains to denigrate true believers as if they were
> evil conspirators set on bringing down society for their own twisted
> pleasures and financial gain.
>
> This particular group doesn't strike me as living high on the hog, so I
> wouldn't classify them with the multimillion dollar televangelists.  They
> look more like a bunch of regular Joes that presumably truly believe what
> they are saying, and they care strongly enough about it to scrape enough
> together to mass-mail DVD's explaining their beliefs.  I don't find that so
> onerous, and it can even be seen as a caring gesture if you look at it from
> that perspective.
>
> That being said, their beliefs are so dissimilar to my own beliefs that
> it's like we are on two different planets trying to communicate without
> knowing the others language.  My own beliefs don't require evangelization,
> and I often wish that other religions didn't require it, either.
> Nevertheless, I accept their evangelism in the same way that I accept my
> friends rantings about the evils of Apple or my other friends in-depth
> descriptions of the design and construction of bee hive boxes: resignedly.
> Presumably that's how my friends accept my constant discussion of various
> at-home programming projects I'm working on or my rantings about climate
> science.
>
> Paul
>
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