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Re: Apologies


I, too, apologize if my remarks have seemed judgmental or "low 
road"-ish.  My recent posting in response to Prof. McCartney was sent 
before I read his very gracious, very *Christian* posting below.

--James Sennett



On Tue, 3 May 1994, Dan G. McCartney, Westminster Seminary wrote:

> Apologies to all on this forum, especially Mr. Sennett.  I woke last night
> with the horrible realization that my hasty response to Mr. Sennett
> yesterday exhibited the very martyr complex he was decrying, and **I**,
> not Mr. Sennett, was the one taking the low road.  
> 
> Further, yesterday I said I don't often encounter reactionary literalism
> anymore.  And wouldn't you know it, this morning I encountered it.   
> Words taste like ashes when you must eat them.
> 
> Perhaps I will learn to download my mail and give considered responses
> rather than respond off-the-cuff on-line.  Again, apologies. 
> 
> I must also express the wish that we could expunge the word "fundamentalist"
> from our vocabulary.  It is a word that manifests many of the problems of
> "meaning" being discussed in this forum, since it seems to be defined in as
> many different ways as there are people who use the word.  Its only real
> function thus seems to be pejorative.
> 
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