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In Reply to: Re: What I think posted by Commentator on November 14, 2006 at 02:57:36:
I have no problem with what you say...of course I never intended to salvage the movement...the tree can be chopped down anytime, if I had any say in it...what I was thinking about was "salvaging" the manpower, the idealism, if I had any wish free so to speak...but of course, that is wishful thinking... who knows, but if some of them, after really "seeing the light" formed anything "positive",
it would not be TF of course, then as any group, they'd have a founding history & when journalist dig, it would come out anyway ( unless they declare it, as I would suggest it (being honest from the beginning) in some founding paper, that they were originally with YKW), that they were originally in TF...it happened quite often in history...there are many Christians, who are not satisfied with just the "reformation" of Luther, that it was not enough breaking with the catholic church...one issue some have is with the position of the pastor & if I remember right, it was the Missouri-Synod, where they voted for a different approach, thus being a
"minor splitoff" of the Lutheran church...as far as I read, there are lots of variations among the Presbytarians too, but they seem to declare, the differences are minor...
May be you remember the seventies, where there was constantly a new communist/socialist party, who were at odds with each other, pro Trotzki, pro Peking or Moscow etc. and the ones who left one line, to form a new one, were of course "heretics"
So I guess, we see it similar & I doubt, that many could really object to it...I doubt, that Jeb sees it like that, but that was actually never my point.In any case, I doubt anyway, that many Exers could be recruited, to form anything new, because many are probably bogged down with the simple affairs of life & don't have super much spare time, plus many have different faith & interests now...on the other hand, I don't see, why a discussion about the possible forming of anything "really worthwhile" is per se dangerous, stupid,
or against any unwritten "Exer-law"...that only caught my "ire"...so to speak
