tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post5786722473180162838..comments2014-05-01T04:08:19.819+01:00Comments on tomkennar.com: Bringing a Curse On Ourselves?Tom Kennarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09059361977886521239noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-42806039853753467862008-06-03T12:14:00.000+01:002008-06-03T12:14:00.000+01:00Hi Russell,Thanks for another thought-provoking co...Hi Russell,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for another thought-provoking contribution! Good stuff!<BR/><BR/>In many respects I agree with you. You are certainly right when you say that people don't set out to 'cut themselves off from God'. Certainly most self-inflicted/society influenced misery is incremental...it creeps up on people.<BR/><BR/>The key question is 'why'? Secular thought in general would tell Tom Kennarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09059361977886521239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-26569148137285857622008-06-03T11:04:00.000+01:002008-06-03T11:04:00.000+01:00well, oh my, what a ball to have set rolling! sorr...well, oh my, what a ball to have set rolling! sorry Tom ;-)<BR/><BR/>There are a couple of things on both sides of this discussion that i'd like to address, the first is the power and choice of language.<BR/><BR/>The word "curse" means according to the Chambers dictionary, 'to invoke or wish evil upon; to blaspheme; to afflict with; to damn; to excommunicate.' <BR/><BR/>This description is The Ticcy Knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474448367731669652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-55089256394961668542008-06-03T09:20:00.000+01:002008-06-03T09:20:00.000+01:00Hello Anonymous!Thanks for taking the time and tro...Hello Anonymous!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for taking the time and trouble to contribute to this debate. (Incidentally, it would be great to know who you are - so that we could perhaps take the debate deeper on a one-to-one level. Why not email me at tomkennar@googlemail.com).<BR/><BR/>I hope you won't mind if I respond to at least some of your points here. let me start by responding to some of your Tom Kennarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09059361977886521239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-12945943800932269112008-06-03T02:50:00.000+01:002008-06-03T02:50:00.000+01:00Hi, I'm sorry this has to be an anonymous post, it...Hi, <BR/>I'm sorry this has to be an anonymous post, it's not the way I normally like to do things but please believe me that in this instance it's simply the way it has to be.<BR/><BR/>As you have opened this up for debate I hope you won't mind me making a couple of comments. I do disagree with a lot of the theology underlying what you said, not least because it appears particularly black and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com