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Dear P-Marlowe,

The job was that of social worker, as far as I can see, not minister of the Gospel.

Unless the Salvation Army spelled out in the job requirements that one was required to hold an evangelical Protestant faith, I don't know why the fellow would assume it.

As well, the fellow had been working there two years, including several months in the full-time position. If they had a formal requirement for evangelical Protestant faith for permanent placement in that position, they could have communicated that to him when he indicated interest in the permanent placement.

In which case, they wouldn't have accepted his application in the first place, and there would have been no interview.

"If one can't answer yes to the question of whether or not you are a 'Born Again Christian' or if one has to dance around the question, then I'd have to conclude that they are not."

And your conclusion would be as false as the assumptions that undergird it. We Catholics understand valid baptism as being "born again" by water and the Holy Spirit. Yet, if I were to merely answer, "Yes," to the question, "Are you born again?" I'd either be acceding to the [false] definition of "born again" of my interlocutor, or I would be deceiving him into thinking that I was acceding to that definition.

Sometimes, a "yes" or "no" is a lie.

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