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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Once more from the whirlwind
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 18:45:22 EST
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>> I think I know the damager god better than you: I think you are misguided
>> by infatuation. [Mike Huybensz]

> Conversely, I think that you are misguided by bitterness. [Tim Brengle]

Wow, a game of "To Tell the Truth"!  Will the real misguided person please
stand up?  (Provided, that is, that you know you're misguided.)

> Now.  What was proved (or even accomplished) by either of those statements?
> Are either of us convinced?

Yes.  You are apparently convinced of your own presumptions.  Read on...

> I believe (Charley, please correct me if I am wrong) that Charley was not
> attempting to express any "moral superiority" with his posting.  All he was
> suggesting is that you (collectively) should be as open to God being good as
> you ask us to be about his being a damager-god.  Come and look.  Visit with
> me and my family and see the happiness that comes totally from our love of the
> Lord.  And THEN judge.
> As I have tried to express before, How do you explain the loving touch of God
> that I feel every day?  How can He be the evil that you suppose of Him when
> I *personally* feel His loving touch?

There you have it.  If that's not being "convinced", what is?  The question
is still "Why?".
-- 
"I was walking down the street.  A man came up to me and asked me what was the
 capital of Bolivia.  I hesitated.  Three sailors jumped me.  The next thing I
 knew I was making chicken salad."
"I don't believe that for a minute.  Everyone knows the capital of Bolivia is
 La Paz."				Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr