<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">g. crabtree</b> <<a href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">jampot@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">And what exactly would be your point here, Mr. Moffett?</font></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>The point is exactly what I wrote below. I could, and probably should, expand and rewrite this statement, given it is not as clear and precise as I would like. But I think for the most part the point comes across:
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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>As to how this statement does or does not impact your discussion with Mr. Campbell, I leave it to the reader.</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><b>From:</b> <a title="starbliss@gmail.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com" target="_blank">Ted Moffett</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="joekc@adelphia.net" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:joekc@adelphia.net" target="_blank">Joe Campbell</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="jampot@roadrunner.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">g. crabtree</a> ; <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">
vision2020@moscow.com</a> ; <a title="donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" target="_blank">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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<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>"...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."
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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."
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>
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