re koresh doctrine of f gautjw ccsvax sfasu edu writes in article watson mariner sce carleton ca watson sce carleton ca stephen watson writes question for those of you who seem to be fundamentalists stephen tice the cotera joe gaut et al apologies if i ve mislabelled any of you i ve only started reading t r m since the bd disaster but i know the cotera is a fundy and are defending koresh and his beliefs as an example of true christianity under persecution from the the big bad secular state what is your opinion of his reported sexual habits if the reports are accurate what iyo does this say about the quality of his christianity or are the allegations just part of the big cover up thank you steve it is refreshing to have someone accuse me of being a christian i only hope enough evidence can be garnered to get a conviction i am not certain what you mean by the fundy part as the term fundamentalist has a wide variety of uses if you refer to i use it to refer to those christians who take a more conservative literalist approach to the bible as distinct from liberals those who actually believe jesus is the messiah and son of god and wish to follow in his way then i plead guilty but what does it i would use the word christian unqualified to describe someone to whom the above definition applied btw it applies to me deletia joe gaut indicates his interest in the bd disaster is from a civil liberties issue not an attempt to justify koresh s beliefs and or practices i agree with joe about this if some group wants to believe in whatever god or invisible pink unicorns and go off and live together and have group sex or no sex or sex only for the leaders but not with children then as much as i might believe them to be misguided i think they should have the legal right and i hope the investigation will start by determining whether the feds had any legitimate reason for going after koresh in the first place before moving on to consider the wisdom of various tactics used joe goes on to dispute the child abuse allegations i ll provisionally accept this unless someone has evidence to support the allegations actually i wasn t thinking about the alleged child abuse but about the reports that he had sex with and fathered children by several women in the cult i agree this is not a legal matter consenting adults and all that but stephen tice seems to be defending koresh s beliefs and practices from specifically christian perspective not a civil liberties perspective i think my question is not really aimed at joe and possibly not at ray cote either who seems to also be taking the political angle but at stephen tice steve watson a k a watson sce carleton ca carleton university ontario this opinion my opinion assert this opinion carletonu opinion somebody touched me making everything new burned through my life like a bolt from the blue somebody touched me i know it was you bruce cockburn
