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A last try --
You misunderstand the autonomy tradition of the faith you are trying to describe -- for both individual members and churches.
You misunderstand my traditional upbringing and interdenominational work using each groups' own faith traditions and values.
You misunderstand that seminary degrees do not automatically make you ministers of the school's denomination.

Finally, you misunderstand that I am not trying to save Terri and our right to speak for her in order to convert you or anyone else to the way I believe in Jesus.

Therefore, let us leave off this foolishness as this is not a denominational discussion board.

I do not care what you believe -- only that you have the freedom to believe it. I understand my round faith journey does not fit into your square faith mold.

So be it and so what -- back to Terri please.

Yours,
Rus

P.S. 2 articles coming up to watch for:
"All I Ever Wanted to Do..." in the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted suicide's newletter, "Update"
and
"Fearrogrance in the Garden Patch" in the "National Right To Life News"

The question remains "who in the world ARE you." This is not at this time an issue of disputed beliefs, but an issue of what your beliefs really are; we want some assurance we aren't dealing with an agent provocateur or a chameleon. We take everything with a pound of salt here anyhow; we have no way of ascertaining that behind your screen name is the real Rus Cooper-Dowda (to whom due gratitude, by the way, for opposing the hellishly obscene starve-Terri juggernaut).

Update on Rus:
I just found out that the student attack I was (and am) still recovering from when I got fired may have caused a series of hairline spinal fractures.

Please pray for me and send good thoughts as I check that out in the next couple of days.

Thank You,
Rus