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Re: web page
>Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 16:05:39
>From: Logon@gnn.com (MIKE DAVIS)
>To: dlature@comcast.net
>Subject: web page
>
>Dear Dale,
>
>As I have read most of the pos/neg comments about what your doing one
> might
>consider me an echo. Since you have been concerned about lack of attention
> to
>your web page I figured I write (something I never do). I'm fairly new to
>the internet, but I must say I love your site! I find it refreshing,
> amidst
>all the "liberal" bashing I have seen among the evangelical/fundementalist
>crowd. I think what you are trying to do is outstanding, and commend you
>highly on your long suffering, and tolerance of this group of people.
> Even I
>get quite weary of explaining and re-explaining my faith to them. I came
>from a fundementalist background, and was very literalistic all the way to
> my
>second year of collage. I took Old and New Testisment courses that
> expanded
>my mind and my faith without measure. I could actually see the depth and
>mystery of the Christian faith was so much larger than I had ever
> imagined.
>Quite a thrilling time in my life. But what I found was that all my
> friends
>and family were still where I used to be, stuck in the rut of literalism.
> Up
>till the present day, I have tried to convey that same mystery to all who
>asked of my faith. As you are by now well aware quite a few outside the
>scholarly circle practically brand you as a heretic. That is why commend
>you. You are doing something that requires a great deal of pacience,
>something I have been running short of lately. Fight the good fight my
>friend.