<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsmith2627@att.net">jsmith2627@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 2/6/09, Roy C. Lackey <i><<a href="mailto:rclackey@stic.net" target="_blank">rclackey@stic.net</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">
From: Roy C. Lackey <<a href="mailto:rclackey@stic.net" target="_blank">rclackey@stic.net</a>><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Indescribable Christ?<br></div>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" target="_blank">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 6:35 PM<br><br><pre><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>This subject is tiresome and has been done to death over the years, and<br>leads nowhere. People are talking past each other, as ever. I should stay<br>
out of it. But I will make an appeal to the text.<br><br>At issue here is whether or not Severian is in any meaningful sense a<br>manifestation of the Christ, rather than someone who merely has Christ-like,<br>or Christic (as I believe someone here once termed it) qualities. The<br>
difference is unimportant to some, but
to Christians (which I am not) it is<br>paramount.<br><br><br><br></div>Amen. I disagee only with "to Christians it is paramount." Most Christians are concerned with the message of Christ, not hair-splitting theological arguments.<br>
<br>Best wishes,<br>Jack</pre></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br>Jack, you speak of theology as though you think it and the "message" of Christianity (whatever that is supposed to mean; for the Apostles it was the empty tomb) are mutually exclusive. Furthermore, your statement appears to have as its primary object your assertion of superiority over those who engage in "hair-splitting theological arguments". <br>
<br>Christology as a focus of controversy has cooled a great deal since the 5th century, but most Christian bodies consider it an essential part of the faith; the catechisms of the largest Christian churches all address it. Clearly, quite a few people consider it important.<br>
<br>Simple arithmetic suffices for most of my mathematical needs. I find complex geometry obscure, but that's not justification for me to conclude that it's useless. Math, like religion, is bigger than my experience and my special feelings.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Matt +<br><br>Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.<br> Plato (c. 428-348 B.C.), The Republic, bk. VIII, 558-C<br>
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