TILL
I'm not in the habit of defending Jerry McDonald. He and I have been
long-time debating adversaries, and I consider his fundamentalist views
absurd (just as mine were). However, as a former Church-of-Christ preacher,
I think I know what this church stands for, unless it has taken an abrupt
doctrinal detour since the days of my affiliation with it, so I don't
believe at all that it has any reconstructionist leanings. I just don't
think that Jerry or any Church-of-Christ preacher or member I know--and I
know many of them--has any plans or desires to exterminate skeptics.
I would personally feel secure around them in any situation where they might
have the opportunity to harm me with physical violence. Perhaps the
reconstructionists we have had on the list have left with some of us the
impression that all Christians are like them.
Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net