[Vision2020] Freeze Church DVD mailing

[Darrell Keim]

It would be interesting to know if the same people receiving this DVD are
the people that got the Bouma postcard last year.



On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:

>   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 <keim153 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, November 04, 2011 4:56 PM
> *To:* Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Vision 2020 <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
> *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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