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To: All; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD; Gamecock
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18 posted on 07/15/2009 6:00:13 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("I always longed for repose and quiet" - John Calvin)
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To: Alex Murphy

Ahhhhhh . . . a visit from an old friend.

I’ll check out the Colson link. I like Colson a lot.


20 posted on 07/15/2009 6:07:34 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Alex Murphy

BTW, have you read THE SHACK?


21 posted on 07/15/2009 6:07:51 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Alex Murphy

I just read Colson’s critique.

I think he’s off base by a huge margin.

I found his attitude . . . well . . . not to match my experience of THE SHACK

and . . . sadly, uncharacteristically for him . . .

PRISSY.

God is Holy.

God is NOT PRISSY.

I found the GOD OF SCRIPTURE vividly in THE SHACK.

Colson’s rant about a low view of Scripture in the Shack is simply not true.


22 posted on 07/15/2009 6:12:00 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Alex Murphy; Dr. Eckleburg; HarleyD
FROM the first link:

But Stackhouse also criticized The Shack. Most of his complaints had to do with the novel's denunciations of "institutional" Christianity, as well as seminaries, ritual and hierarchy.

Ahhhhhhhhhh . . .

ritual and hierarchy . . . and here I thought you represented folks vigorously hostile to RC ritual and hierarchy. Guess I really have misunderstood you a LOT!

24 posted on 07/15/2009 6:18:40 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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