[Vision2020] Freeze Church DVD mailing

[Sue Hovey]

What a cruel way to try to make a point.  I know many people who do not believe in abortion who would never, ever stoop to this coercive behavior.  If people in the Freeze Church choose this message as a way to make their point, shame on them.  It certainly explains a lot about their lack of compassion for those who might disagree. 

Sue H. 

From: Darrell Keim 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 4:56 PM
To: Paul Rumelhart 
Cc: Vision 2020 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Freeze Church DVD mailing

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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