Subject: RE: BHA: RE: An Anti-Terrorist Manifesto
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:39:30 -0500


Hi Tim,

I'm glad you might not entirely agree with the wit.  Does this mean that you don't think all Christians are all bad -- e.g., "some of my best friends are Christians, but I wouldn't want my daughter to marry one"?

Dick

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From: Tim Murphy [mailto:info-AT-cinox.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 1:45 AM
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Subject: RE: BHA: RE: An Anti-Terrorist Manifesto


Which wit was it..? who observed something like this...

"The only really good thing about the Liberation theology people and the Christian Marxists was that to a limited extent they were Marxists"

I am not saying I enirely agree with this but it made me laugh. Like I know what he/she means :)

Tim

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[mailto:owner-bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU]On Behalf Of Mark A. Foster
Sent: 10 January 2004 17:47
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Subject: RE: BHA: RE: An Anti-Terrorist Manifesto

Hi, Dick,

At 12:27 PM 1/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>I teach at a Catholic University, and find that the theologians here 
>>are
much too frightened of "Ex Corde Ecclesiae" to make common cause with a "radical" sociologist.<<

My first full-time position, a leave replacement, was at a Dominican college in the Northeastern U.S. The students were, as a whole considerably more progressive than the faculty. Where I am now, in the Midwest, the reverse is true. We have five full-time sociologists. Almost all of us are Marxists or neo-Marxists, while the students tend to be quite conservative and traditional.

However, I belong to the major interfaith organization in the Kansas City area. As one might expect, most of the active members are progressive. A few are radical. It has turned out to be a superb opportunity to find "common cause" with a number of local religious leaders.

Mark A. Foster * http://markfoster.net
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger"
-- Mark Twain and Abbie Hoffman
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