{"id":3954,"date":"2008-08-22T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2008-08-22T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T19:07:18","slug":"amazing-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3954","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Rowitt emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dear Luke,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt would be really nice for you to actually do some homework before sharing your thoughts with the world. It was John Newton who wrote Amazing Grace and was one of the major influences and inspirations in the abolitionist movement. He was a mentor of William Wilberforce (look it up) and that movement eventually moved to the USA where these penitent sinners ran the underground railroad, risking their lives as slaves were helped to freedom for decades preceding&nbsp;the Civil War.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOh yeah, when you converted to Judaism didn&#8217;t you learn the concept of Teshuvah? How about Yom Kippur? Judaism is not a religion that has to put down the faith of others to exalt itself. <br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nGod is gracious to all,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSteve Rowitt<br \/>\nCoral Springs, FL<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I forget who wrote a song while I&#8217;m sick and in conversation with Marc Gafni and some stranger with plenty of leisure to nail down the details feels like that entitles him to lecture me on penitence.<\/p>\n<p>Jim emails: &quot;No need to get snippy when someone calls you out for being an insufferable&#8211;and ill-informed&#8211;gasbag. 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