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Re: You're not saying Kedrick is being shopped, are you?

Not weaseling. Right now, it's taking all my concentration to write up the CBW review of tonight's game. Doing what would amount to a mini dissertation on the Mormons would take time I simply do not have. They're a fascinating people with an extremely interesting history and an interesting way of life. All I was doing was differentiating what I perceived as a generic description regarding Danny Ainge's behaving like a "Good Christian", when to the best of my admittedly spotty memory, Mormons prefer to be known specifically as Mormons, as opposed to what most people perceive as Christian (which is not necessarily the same as "Catholic" be it Roman, or otherwise).

It's also not fair to take up too much time and space to go into a VERY wide ranging discussion that would go too far afield from Celtics-related discussion to be remotely reasonable to those who aren't interested in a theological discussion of any kind.

At 10:26 PM 10/24/03 -0400, Dan Forant wrote:

Alright Snoop, don't weasel out, I'll call your bluff, what's the story??

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Snoopy the Celtics Beagle" <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: You're not saying Kedrick is being shopped, are you?


> I realize there are differences more significant than I rather vaguely
> described, I just didn't want to turn it into a theological debate--too,
> I'm not as up on all the details of the Mormon faith as I should be if I
> want to do a detailed comparison.  I felt better just acknowledging that
> the differences existed without getting into specifics that don't think
are
> really relevant to the board.
>
> At 08:50 PM 10/24/03 -0400, Sean Giovanello wrote:
>
> >I am not a religion expert, but its my understanding that its only by the
> >loosest of interpretations that Mormons can be considered
> >Christians.  Differences between Protestants and Catholics or Orthodox
are
> >not over basic church teaching - all use the same scriptures.
> >Mormons draw from the Bible, but have a whole realm of other literature
> >that is decidedly not Christian.  It involves Christ, but not in anyway
> >that any Christian denomination would accept.  Its more than slight imho,
> >as the Mormons believe Jesus was walking around North America thousands
of
> >years ago.
> >
> >Snoopy the Celtics Beagle wrote:
> >
> >>At 10:22 AM 10/24/03 -0400, Eggcentric@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>And nobody ... ya hear me - NOBODY gets the better of
> >>>>>our baby-faced assassin - the good Christian Ainge, right?
> >>>>>
> >>>< Perhaps a small point amidst the word of a potential trade, but I
> >>>thought Ainge was Mormon... > - Snoop
> >>>
> >>>You mean Mormons are closet Muslims?  And here I thought that
> >>>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was Christian and
> >>>that Mormons tried to live their lives according to the teachings
> >>>of Christ.
> >>>
> >>>Egg
> >>>
> >>
> >>No, Good Egg, but there is--however slight--a difference in some of the
> >>teachings--and perceptions of--Mormons from the more "stereotypical"
> >>Christians as most people tend to think of the term.  Just being more
> >>specific, that's all.
> >>
> >>Snoopy the Celtics Beagle
> >>Please visit the <http://www.celticsbeagle.net/>Celtics Beagle Website