Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: COHOUSING-L digest 269

[Denise Meier and/or Michael Jacob (dmmj]

Dear Scott, 

I'm finding your tone very offensive. I am no fan of institutional
Christianity, but your generalizations about Christians are no more
appropriate than if you had posted that Jews could make cohousing work
because "they're so good with money", or that African Americans couldn't
do it because "they lack initiative". 

If you have had some unpleasant experiences with Christian groups, I
suggest you find some other place to work out your anger. This is not the
forum for it. 

Denise Meier
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol, California

On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Scott Cowley wrote:

> I second what Allen Howell says about the abuse of the term cohousing by 
> special interest groups.
> Christians, in particular, are the first to parasitize a well-intentioned 
> movement.  Beware.
> 
> To Carolyn Haley...
>   Maybe we should hope for a cohousing community of Santa Clauses and Easter 
> Bunnies, too.
> When was the last time _any_ christian group openly welcomed any moslems, 
> buddhists, atheists,
> (etc., etc.) to share in their bank account or babysit their kids ?  The only 
> actively sought-after 
> constituency I have seen them welcome in are polyannas.
> 
> - good ole acerbic me.
>