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>Date:	Fri, 05 Apr 1996 16:05:39
>From:	Logon@gnn.com (MIKE  DAVIS)
>To:	dlature@comcast.net
>Subject:	web page
>
>Dear Dale,
>
>As I have read most of the pos/neg comments about what your doing one
> might 
>consider me an echo. Since you have been concerned about lack of attention
> to 
>your web page I figured I write (something I never do).  I'm fairly new to 
>the internet, but I must say I love your site!  I find it refreshing,
> amidst 
>all the "liberal" bashing I have seen among the evangelical/fundementalist 
>crowd.  I think what you are trying to do is outstanding, and commend you 
>highly on your long suffering, and tolerance of this group of people. 
> Even I 
>get quite weary of explaining and re-explaining my faith to them.  I came 
>from a fundementalist background, and was very literalistic all the way to
> my 
>second year of collage.  I took Old and New Testisment courses that
> expanded 
>my mind and my faith without measure.  I could actually see the depth and 
>mystery of the Christian faith was so much larger than I had ever
> imagined.  
>Quite a thrilling time in my life.  But what I found was that all my
> friends 
>and family were still where I used to be, stuck in the rut of literalism. 
> Up 
>till the present day, I have tried to convey that same mystery to all who 
>asked of my faith.  As you are by now well aware quite a few outside the 
>scholarly circle practically brand you as a heretic.  That is why commend 
>you.  You are doing something that requires a great deal of pacience, 
>something I have been running short of lately.  Fight the good fight my 
>friend.