Well I find reading such and contemplating that folks believe (and live by) such both amusing and very very sad....
I used to work for (and am still friends with) this Charismatic Christian guy who (along with his wife) hold very similar views as expressed above - he is an extreme biblical literalist - and a leader/lay teacher in his rather large (rigth wing) church. But he is an exception in that he is always open to discuss things and would listen and not just block off (he had an older brother who was and still is [?] a hippie - so it gave him some good perspective! lol). In fact long ago we became great friends outside of work and still stay in touch, our families used to socialize together and I even visited him twice when he was living in Colorado and I was working about 1 1/2 hours away (he has just recently returned to the area). An exception to the rule - as he was a very fine and loving person even while holding some very extreme (conservative/old school attitudes and sometimes frightening [think armegeddon/rapture] views...)...of course he has similar but polarized opinions of me - "nice guy (we pray for your salvation every day Winston...etc etc... ) - but boy are you a radical!" etc...and many of you'all here would be pretty surprised (or maybe not) if you knew what (type of) position he holds in the current administration! Yeah - we disagree on some pretty fundemental stuff (gay marriage - lol - forget about it!) - but agree on certain things as well - oddly enough...and to think once (long ago) we both interrogated an important (weren't they all?) Soviet defector together...concerning UFO incidents over military facilities! Who would believe eh?
I used to work for (and am still friends with) this Charismatic Christian guy who (along with his wife) hold very similar views as expressed above - he is an extreme biblical literalist - and a leader/lay teacher in his rather large (rigth wing) church. But he is an exception in that he is always open to discuss things and would listen and not just block off (he had an older brother who was and still is [?] a hippie - so it gave him some good perspective! lol). In fact long ago we became great friends outside of work and still stay in touch, our families used to socialize together and I even visited him twice when he was living in Colorado and I was working about 1 1/2 hours away (he has just recently returned to the area). An exception to the rule - as he was a very fine and loving person even while holding some very extreme (conservative/old school attitudes and sometimes frightening [think armegeddon/rapture] views...)...of course he has similar but polarized opinions of me - "nice guy (we pray for your salvation every day Winston...etc etc... ) - but boy are you a radical!" etc...and many of you'all here would be pretty surprised (or maybe not) if you knew what (type of) position he holds in the current administration! Yeah - we disagree on some pretty fundemental stuff (gay marriage - lol - forget about it!) - but agree on certain things as well - oddly enough...and to think once (long ago) we both interrogated an important (weren't they all?) Soviet defector together...concerning UFO incidents over military facilities! Who would believe eh?
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