Quite frankly I don't buy the idea you needed someone else's email to
"question the veracity" of that message you posted.
Again, most reasonable people would probably recognize this is all
massively offensive without needing someone else to explain it to them.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:54 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Comments on Catholic Church
You obviously did not read my post carefully. I'm surprised. /Ben
>Ben -
>
>I don't need to know you or your wife to know the arguments she
presents
>are a rehash of a bunch of old school attacks launched against the
>Catholic Church. They have been used as the justification of numerous
>acts of violence and exclusion of Catholics both in the U.S. and
abroad.
>
>If you want to throw around shame, shame on you for spreading that
>garbage around in the first place. The ideas you relate are ignorant
and
>deeply offensive to most Catholics, and reasonable people could
probably
>figure all this out without great mental leaps.
>
>If she really can't see how wrong this stuff is (for that matter, if
you
>can't), I have no clue what I could say to open your eyes.
>
>M
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:50 AM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Re: Comments on Catholic Church
>
>
>Mike-
>
>You obviously do not know my wife.
>
>And I strongly protest your implication that she is narrow-minded
>and that, even if wrong, no amount of discussion would change her
>mind.
>
>Shame on you for pre-judging her and painting with a very broad brush.
>
>I plan on showing her Will Bowen's very well-written reply.
>Will's email immediately made me question the veracity of a lot
>of the so-called "truths" I was taught. I want to study this more.
>
>I'm Jewish, and there have been even more vicious attacks against
>us for two thousand years. I do not want to spread false accusations
>against Catholics if shown they are not true, and I am sure my
>wife as an intelligent and fair person would do the same.
>
>-Ben
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