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To: Lane3 who wrote (54657)	3/20/2008 2:20:16 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542214

My talking about my personal emotional reaction in the same post with a critique of the comments caused an understandable apparent contradiction. Sorry about that. Which is what occurred to me as I typed. Thanks for confirming it. And one of the ways we "understand" them is to see them in context. I see the context just fine. And I understand just fine. But I'm also analytical enough and detached enough to separate the various threads of both his comments and his context for inspection and discussion. Which is, of course, by quick inference, to say that I am not. Hogwash, as they say. We definitely disagree about what it means to put matters into context and what is the better context. But to argue that putting things in context is to lack analytical abilities is to, just to be kind, to miss the point. If you think reading the meaning of Wright's statements in the context of his work (sermons, actions, life history) is non-analytical and only reading them in the context of the immediate media flurry is analytical, then we surely don't agree on the meaning of the word "analytical." We might disagree as to the proper interpretive context. So be it. Then I would be happy to argue why each is important, play different roles, and why his life history is the more important. As for the halo effect point, that certainly doesn't contribute to keeping these conversations civil. It's hard enough to have serious conversations about subjects as passionately held as politics and religion. They work best if we can make efforts to be civil.