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Pastimes : Politically Incorrect: for those sick of PC
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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (821)8/1/1997 5:26:00 PM
From: Janice Shell   of 1014
 
'Fraid not, Emile. Try your Witnessing elsewhere. And what exactly ARE you going on about? I've just said that I don't like religion--and let me add to that: pseudo-religions, which are generally political in nature--so what's your beef? People do have a right not to be annoyed by those who want to "save" them.

Perhaps it will interest you to know (though I doubt it) that I have a friend who was raised in the Assemblies of God. Born again at the age of four (he doesn't remember much about it), a Pharisee of the Pharisees when he was in his teens. Spoke in Tongues and the whole nine yards. (Though as he said, there wasn't much else to do in Oklahoma in the summer.) Eventually he went off to Bible College. Had some very good teachers who inadvertantly opened his mind. Fast forward: transferred to the University of Michigan, got his BA, then got a Ph.D. He's an intellectual historian, chief area of interest, Renaissance humanists. Still into the Church, but from a very different angle.

Should note as well: he ACTUALLY SUCCEEDED in convincing U Mich to give him credits for the Witnessing courses he was compelled to take at Bible College. He found a very, ah, original way of explaining them. Hilarious story.
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