Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 20:48 CDT Subject: Promise Keepers (fwd) PGregorySpringerschwaermerdad

Date:    Mon, 8 Aug 94 20:48 CDT
From:    "P.G. Springer" 
Subject: Promise Keepers (fwd)

PGregorySpringerschwaermerdadathepdoesnotstandforpope
Was getting a little hot under the collar.
Wrote the following message.
Wishes to backpedal a little bit.
Doesn't want to start going in circles again.
Is going camping tomorrow morning.
Wants to stop thinking about everything.
Regrets the dichotomy of Christianity in the apocalyptic zeitgeist.
Doesn't feel the need to apologize.
Is not taking any arsenal on trip, save a flashlight.
Says "later..."

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 17:13:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: P.G. Springer 
To: menno.d@uci.com
Cc: Multiple recipients of list 
Subject: Re: Promise Keepers

Is there some kind of blind denial going on here?

Or is it just that my particular copy of the New York Times is filled 
with bizarre fabrications?

Why do I keep reading these letters in the Gospel Herald that seem to 
echo sentiments heard from the "pulpit" of the Republican convention?
Why was it that the last time I went to church I heard homosexuals 
condemned from the pulpit and, again, in the Sunday School class I 
attended?  Didn't some people just get shot and killed in Florida?
Didn't my lesbian friend's tires just get slashed as she passed through 
this town?  Isn't she continuously threatened with violence because of 
the way she looks?  Why are groups of men gathering together in football 
stadiums to regain their authority, bonding against homosexuals?

Meanwhile, Caleb and Wolf ponder theoretically: "Does the Christian 
right really advocate violence and hate?  Or, maybe it's just a few 
individuals who take the words of the Christian right literally.  And 
maybe those people killed and threatened really deserve such things in 
their lives because they're sinners.  How lamentable.  We really do love 
them.  If only..."

There are many ways to express hate and violence.  Pulling the trigger is 
just the tip of an iceburg that plows steadily through and wreaks 
destruction, hate, and death.
 
PGregorySpringerschwaermerdadathepdoesnotstandforpope