At 02:53 PM 12/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >===== Original Message From Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>culture =====
> >On 29.12.000, J.E.St.Lawrence wrote in response to Br.Bugnolo:
> >
> >May I add that as an agnostic I too was shocked, and as a single parent
> I was
>deeply offended.
> >Gail.
>
>
>Nuts!!! This is just too much. Didn't anyone read George's advisory? And,
>though I too am out of line, let me say that anyone so easily offended
>shouldn't participate in a free exchange of ideas.
>
>Yrs, the forever foot in the mouth lurker, C. Thomas Ault
agreed. the whole point about free speech is you have to have a thick
skin. as someone said, about the pacific millennialism of late 14th cn
england -- the intolerability of tolerance.
r
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