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To: Whitebeard who wrote (154140)	1/8/2006 3:03:49 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793912

There are Episcopals and then there are Episcopals Apparently. That's why I itch when people say that the show is insulting to Christians. Or when people talk about hatred of Christianity, a point I was discussing yesterday. It isn't "Christians" but subsets of Christians. So when you makes statements like "It's insulting, in bad taste, devaluing of Christianity," I don't think that's accurate. It's not "Christianity" but a certain subset of it. Or a certain subset of Christians who perceive it that way. I don't know which subset in this case. I haven't been able to get a handle on it. According to you it's all but the "self-satisfied middle class" Christians. I don't know what the complement to that would be called. Surely not "unsatisfied lower class Christians." <g>

To: Whitebeard who wrote (154140)	1/8/2006 5:27:51 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793912

I guess that I wonder why "the Book of Daniel," or other 'edgy' shows, have to feel important by putting other groups of people down. I think you may have pegged it here with your comments: They think it's okay if they cease to exist, which they are, because in their rush to be liberal and all embracing, they believe in less and less. Those who stand for nothing die of ennui. Nice choice of words, BTW....I looked up ennui for other applications, and found: dictionary.reference.com ennui \on-WEE; ON-wee\, noun: A feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from lack of interest; boredom. He glanced at his heavily laden bookshelves. Nothing there appealed to him. The ennui seemed to have settled into his very bones. --Amanda Quick, With This Ring He was often off sick or playing hooky and suffered from a kind of ennui, a mixture of listlessness and willful melancholy. --Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (Translated by Barbara Bray) Yet if she felt anything it was ennui,... the grey sky and the cold wind obliterating every impulse she might have felt to seek comfort in another climate, another landscape. She was free to leave but felt condemned to stay. --Anita Brookner, Falling Slowly He was ashamed and unhappy, adrift with a senseless ennui. --Brian Moynahan, Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned