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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And what exactly would be your point here, Mr.
Moffett? The comment I made did not express any opinion good or bad about
religious ambiguity. That was left for the reader to determine. The point I was
making in the original post was that Mr. Campbell was in no position to
determine how I might feel about any given topic were I Jewish (or black, or
female, or homosexual, etc.) as was his assertion. Aside from the absurdity
of such speculation (If a fish had feet instead of flippers, how would he feel
about formal footwear?) I'm fairly certain that I am ever so slightly more
expert in all that is me then most others can be. Philosophy teachers
included.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>g</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=joekc@adelphia.net
href="mailto:joekc@adelphia.net">Joe Campbell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=jampot@roadrunner.com
href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">g. crabtree</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> ; <A
title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 15, 2007 10:34
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Coulter's Dream
- from CNN</DIV>
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<DIV>Gary wrote:<BR> </DIV>
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don't recall making any comment as to whether I believed your assertion of
being a Christian or not and I certainly make no judgment with regard to
your level of commitment to whatever it is you do believe but,It certainly
seems to me that reasonable people could come to the conclusion that you are
disposed toward a certain religious ambiguity. <BR><BR>g</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>If Mother Teresa (Agnes Bojaxhiu), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, can
have moments of doubt about God, faith and religion, so can anybody who
professes belief about anything:</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>"...the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding
spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never
before been published, she bemoans the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and
"torture" she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one
point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of
God." </DIV>
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<DIV>"The church anticipates spiritually fallow periods. Indeed, the Spanish
mystic St. John of the Cross in the 16th century coined the term the "dark
night" of the soul to describe a characteristic stage in the growth of some
spiritual masters. Teresa's may be the most extensive such case on record.
(The "dark night" of the 18th century mystic St. Paul of the Cross lasted 45
years; he ultimately recovered.) Yet Kolodiejchuk sees it in St. John's
context, as darkness within faith. Teresa found ways, starting in the early
1960s, to live with it and abandoned neither her belief nor her work.
Kolodiejchuk produced the book as proof of the faith-filled perseverance that
he sees as her most spiritually heroic act." </DIV>
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<DIV>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</DIV>
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