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<br><div><div>On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:45 PM, <<a href="mailto:thalassocrat@nym.hush.com">thalassocrat@nym.hush.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:thalassocrat@nym.hush.com">thalassocrat@nym.hush.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">You can be a mobster and a pirate, but if you love<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Christ it doesn't matter? Is that good theology?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> </blockquote><br></div><div>It's good Protestant theology [0].</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Which is odd, given the religious affiliations of Chris, Wolfe, and most Mafiosi.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Adam</div><br><div>[0] Yes, yes, I realize that I'm being reductionist to the point of inaccuracy as well as awfully snarky, but honestly, that bit in James about faith without works being dead *is* one of the bits that Protestants prefer to ignore in favor of the bit from Ephesians about grace being a gift that no works can attain. Slap that into a sermon with John 3:16 and you can make a case that faith alone--irrespective of works--is sufficient. Which I am sure is a great comfort to those who prey with delight on their fellow men but go to bed secure in the knowledge that they are the Elect.</div></body></html>