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To: Mad Dawg
We find things in which we rest, and from which our enquiries spring as from a firm base. [...] No reliable doctrine is between them and Him, and right belief can never be absolutely known or relied on

I don't see where we disagree.

6,350 posted on 01/16/2007 4:11:19 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex
The disagreement, if any, was in characterizing the pope-lessness of us'ns and them. As I saw it, and I am notoriously myopic, you were saying every one was his or her as the case may be own Pope. But Forest Keeper et al. were saying we don' need no feelthy steenkin' Pope. I think that's a very big difference. I think the implications of the difference being one's own Pope and not thinking that one can have authoritative font of doctrine are very important. At least, I won't say to myself,"I am my own Pope" if I don't think Popes are desirable or possible.

Is that less obscure?

6,354 posted on 01/16/2007 4:19:25 PM PST by Mad Dawg ('Shut up,' he explained.)
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