Um - okay. I did say several months ago that I was going to Terminus, Deirdre and I having been invited to play there as the Gringotts Grrls.
Now that you mention it, I think I recall you posting that. I hope you weren't offended that I didn't remember; I have enough trouble keeping track of my own schedule! I didn't even remember that Terminus was going on until someone mentioned being there when they replied to me recently in a comment. And then there was Portus not too long before Terminus... I get all confused with all this convention stuff that's been happening. ;-) Anyway, I meant nothing more than, "Oh, O.K., that's where you were." It's not as if I post a great deal, myself, but I do read my f-list via cell phone so generally notice if someone is or isn't around.
Now, before discussing the faith aspect, Mary, I need to clarify: I was NOT objecting to you talking about Christianity, or your Christian perspective, here on your journal. Upon re-reading my comment, and your response, it seemed to me you might have read it that way. When I said, "I would prefer to keep the discussion of the HP books to a broader sense of spirituality and ethics," I meant in the context of general HP discussion at large.
So no, I did not find your post offensive. (Even if I did, hey, it's your journal.) The only thing I found "offensive" was the way in which the other person used atheists as a negative example. Yes, atheists bash people of faith as much as people of faith bash atheists, but I still find it objectionable. And I realized it might have seemed to you to be an innocuous analogy, so I just wanted to point out that, as someone who spent a few years as an atheist and knows and respects intelligent, thoughtful atheists, it was not innocuous at all.
(So sorry... I'm verbose. Faith and values continued in next comment.)
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Now that you mention it, I think I recall you posting that. I hope you weren't offended that I didn't remember; I have enough trouble keeping track of my own schedule! I didn't even remember that Terminus was going on until someone mentioned being there when they replied to me recently in a comment. And then there was Portus not too long before Terminus... I get all confused with all this convention stuff that's been happening. ;-) Anyway, I meant nothing more than, "Oh, O.K., that's where you were." It's not as if I post a great deal, myself, but I do read my f-list via cell phone so generally notice if someone is or isn't around.
Now, before discussing the faith aspect, Mary, I need to clarify: I was NOT objecting to you talking about Christianity, or your Christian perspective, here on your journal. Upon re-reading my comment, and your response, it seemed to me you might have read it that way. When I said, "I would prefer to keep the discussion of the HP books to a broader sense of spirituality and ethics," I meant in the context of general HP discussion at large.
So no, I did not find your post offensive. (Even if I did, hey, it's your journal.) The only thing I found "offensive" was the way in which the other person used atheists as a negative example. Yes, atheists bash people of faith as much as people of faith bash atheists, but I still find it objectionable. And I realized it might have seemed to you to be an innocuous analogy, so I just wanted to point out that, as someone who spent a few years as an atheist and knows and respects intelligent, thoughtful atheists, it was not innocuous at all.
(So sorry... I'm verbose. Faith and values continued in next comment.)