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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam Ferguson who wrote (23867)	7/24/1998 11:45:00 PM
From: George S. Montgomery	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Dear Sam: My curiosity has overcome my instinct to lie by the side of the road on this one. There is a straight, simple question that I am compelled to ask you - feeling strongly that I shouldn't. There has been an exchange, on Feelings, not, where it should be, on the God thread, which has assumed the attitude of near violent verbalization. Emile (if we'd leave him alone, he'd vanish with the rising of the sun) and Grant (who, being non-existent, cannot vanish) on the one extreme, and you, Sam, on the other extreme. Declamations and documentations being hurled hatefully, furiously, as if to destroy the opposing party. (Even Craig goes into citations and affirmations to stake his territory.) The question, which I do want you to answer, is on the protesteth too much line: "Why, having the knowledge, can't you Let It Be?" Your intensity in attempting to strip, or to convert, radicals whom you oppose, saddens me. (As, in a way, does Craig's in 'validating' his beliefs.) Isn't your furor something that Imagine allows us to avoid? Or is a dominant human gene one that insists on missionary conquests? No criticism here, simply befuddled bewilderment. geo ps: This doesn't refer to your piece on the Bible's view of females. Every girl child should be exposed to that early on. That statement of opinion, by you, is so less hateful, so objective, so, almost, loving. g