Re: Don't do us any favors

> > Start reading Gibbon or being excommunicated?
>
> I was already well along in the former -- and didn't really care much
> about
> the latter ... even at that tender and impressionable age (right) --
> so one
> could say it was the start of another kind of learning process: about
> the
> constitution, source, and relevance of authority.

Which is exactly the lesson one would wish the public commentary on DVC
would provide, not simply an opportunity for evangelization. Of course,
I see this as a matter of standards of proof and (as LMM so well
expressed it) relevance of authority, while the commentators in
question no doubt saw it as a matter of theological scandal.

PTR