Subject: Re: Catholic Lit-Crit of a.s.s.
From: NUNNALLY@acs.harding.edu (John Nunnally)
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In <dlphknob.734986640@camelot> dlphknob@camelot.bradley.edu writes:

> In <1993Apr14.101241.476@mtechca.maintech.com> foster@mtechca.maintech.com writes:
> 
> >I am surprised and saddened. I would expect this kind of behavior
> >from the Evangelical Born-Again Gospel-Thumping In-Your-Face We're-
> >The-Only-True-Christian Protestants, but I have always thought 
> >that Catholics behaved better than this.
> >                                   Please do not stoop to the
> >level of the E B-A G-T I-Y-F W-T-O-T-C Protestants, who think
> >that the best way to witness is to be strident, intrusive, loud,
> >insulting and overbearingly self-righteous.
> 
> (Pleading mode on)
> 
> Please!  I'm begging you!  Quit confusing religious groups, and stop
> making generalizations!  I'm a Protestant!  I'm an evangelical!  I don't
> believe that my way is the only way!  I'm not a "creation scientist"!  I
> don't think that homosexuals should be hung by their toenails!  
> 
> If you want to discuss bible thumpers, you would be better off singling
> out (and making obtuse generalizations about) Fundamentalists.  If you
> compared the actions of Presbyterians or Methodists with those of Southern 
> Baptists, you would think that they were different religions!
> 
[Sarcasm on]
Be sure we pick on the "correct groups" here.  "Bible thumpers",
"fundamentalists", and Southern Baptists *deserve* our hasty generalizations
and prejudicial statements.  Just don't pick on the Presbyterians
and the Methodists!
[Sarcasm off] 
> Please, prejudice is about thinking that all people of a group are the
> same, so please don't write off all Protestants or all evangelicals!
> 
> (Pleading mode off.)
> 
> God.......I wish I could get ahold of all the Thomas Stories......
> --
> 	"Fbzr enval jvagre Fhaqnlf jura gurer'f n yvggyr oberqbz, lbh fubhyq
> nyjnlf pneel n tha.  Abg gb fubbg lbhefrys, ohg gb xabj rknpgyl gung lbh'er 
> nyjnlf znxvat n pubvpr."
> 			--Yvan Jregzhyyre
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>         Jemaleddin Sasha David Cole IV - Chief of Knobbery Research
>                         dlphknob@camelot.bradley.edu
