Re: [asa] AIG -- Scientists! Give it up!

Dick,

You still haven't answered my main point. Using that sort of uncouth
language is just going to antagonise people, not win them over.

I've not got Vernon on my back for having succumbed to Theistic
Evolutionism, something he genuinely believes is a Satanic deception.
Naturally I disagree, but are you suggesting that I just insult him like a
bull in a china shop?

Iain

On 7/24/06, Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net> wrote:
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> Hi Iain, you wrote:
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> >>I disagree totally with your position.<<
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> That's what we do on this list.
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> >>Creationists as paid assassins??? What on earth are you talking about?<<
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> Jim Jones fed his congregation spiked Kool-Aid. They drank it and died.
> What kind words can we say about Jim Jones? We can have pity for the duped
> congregation, but Jones was culpable. My indignation is aimed at the ring
> leaders who I'll leave unnamed, but one of them died recently.
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> >>Yes, they're deluded, I'll agree to that. So was I but I didn't allow
> myself to be for very long.<<
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> I have no quarrel with those who because of lack of relevant knowledge get
> caught up in YEC. When they get to heaven, who'll care? It's the untold
> millions who think the Bible is incredible because YECs have sold them the
> same bill of goods – that's who I care for. I was lucky having been saved
> when I was in my forties, well-educated, and not so susceptible to YEC
> propaganda. But I could have lost my new-found faith had I not persevered
> and looked hard for better answers. Many others would have just bailed out
> all together, I almost did.
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> >> But I've known a close colleague who was a sincere creationist &
> there's no way I'd call him a charlatan, or a "paid up assassin".<<
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> Nor would I. There are probably less than a score of individuals who
> could qualify for a custom-made millstone for their scrawny necks. But God
> is the judge of that, not you or I.
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> Dick Fischer
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> Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
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> Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
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> www.genesisproclaimed.org
>

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