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16467: ClaBas1: Christian Fundamentalism (fwd)
From: CLaBas1@aol.com
I read the original forwarding of Terry Snow's message from Haiti and it disgusted me. And I thought "just let it go, everyone who reads it will dismiss it as nonsense." But I can't stop thinking about the tone of moral self-justification. As a devout Christian myself, I'm just so embarrassed by messages like this! I have a group of Haitian friends here in NY. They visit home several times a year, and the families in Haiti practice Voudou. They're all wonderful, hard-working, intelligent people. They certainly don't need to be "Shown the Way" by the likes of me, or anyone else.
Terry Snow and Patty Cunningham terrify me. What a message of hate and intolerance!
And Terry, stop all the self-congratulations. Just because a bunch of people flocked around to shoot off fireworks one night, and the town is going to allow you to erect a slab of stone (can we forget all the Biblical references to graven images??) you haven't won what you seem to think of as the great battle between Voudou and Christianity. I think it was Garrison Keiller who said "Calling yourself a Christian because you go to church is like calling yourself a car because you sleep in a garage."
Christine LaBastille