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To: Lane3 who wrote (29837)	9/27/2001 10:26:49 AM
From: Poet	Respond to of 82486

LOL! Well I'm sure it does cause confusion! But branding either as "liberal" or "conservative", "traditionalist" or "modernist" clouds the issue, IMO, as the labels all carry with them other meanings.

To: Lane3 who wrote (29837)	9/27/2001 11:09:20 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

I think that Neo is just trying to come up with two different labels so that we all know what we're talking about. Religious labelling doesn't always clarify. It often simply invokes the prejudice and misinformation of the person doing the judging. There are thousands of "Christian" sects. They are in disagreement on everything from soup to nuts. In extreme cases the label is useful because the meaning is so deviant. For instance, you have the Christian Identity sect who believe that white Anglo-Saxons are the biblical ''Chosen People'', and that Jews resulted from a relationship between Eve and Satan. They believe that all other people have no souls. The various religious white supremacist groups are often motivated by these beliefs. In other cases, labelling offers little, and ofter detracts from the understanding. Within all the sects listed in this link: (http://www.bible.ca/indexchurches.htm), there exist infinite variety of belief and dogma. To accomodate the tangled web of interpretation that self interest motivates--new churches are continuously breaking away from the old. Certainly, I agree that labels can be useful when they are exact, and when they are used for a specific purpose by people educated in the subject matter being examined, but often they simply make cloudy water entirely opaque.