I wrote no more irresponsiblby than you when speaking of Bonhoeffer or Dean when prestending to know of Karl Barth. There is not a wit's worth of difference. Plus, I thought the very style of my response might seem familiar to Dean - a style he uses quite often.
Your quote, by the way , does not mean Webster was a Christian any more than some of the statements of Abraham Lincoln.
By the way -- I fully intend to write as God directs !! . I am sure you will do the same.
jd
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From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> JD wrote:
> > a dictionary writen by an atheist carries
> > more weight than the exegetical studies
> > of other ...
>
> John, please do not make such irresponsible statements. Webster was no
> atheist, and your other comments were just as irresponsible.
>
> >From the Preface to the 1828 edition of Webster's American Dictionary of the
> English Language:
>
> "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the
> first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be
> instructed...No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian
> religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights
> and privileges of a free people."
>
> David Miller. >
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