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To: SteveinTX who wrote (151006)	12/14/2005 3:55:44 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793843

Interesting observation. It was an interesting experience, one I remember well more than forty years later. I come from a Catholic background. Going from memorizing catechism to a sermon about how Christ didn't actually rise from the dead was mind-bending. What I learned from that juxtaposition was just how wide the range of Christianity is. And how wide the authoritarianism scale is, too. Its affect is like endlessly adding water to a good soup. Eventually you have nothing but tainted water - certainly no taste or nourishment. That's a good metaphor. I take your point. But I also recognize that people are different. The people attending that day seemed satisfied by it. It worked for them and they weren't hurting anyone else. I'd call that a win. At the risk of carrying the metaphor too far, let me add that most of the flavor in soup comes from salt. You can't get much less dogmatic than that I don't want to be semantic about this, but I don't find any way to make "dogmatic" apply to letting a thousand flowers bloom.