Let me offer another perspective on this: from a writer's perspective.
I haven't looked at the article Harry initially trumpeted so I cannot
comment on it specificly. First question to ask yourself is the author a
writer or a so-called expert in the field. If the former, and I have
written articles for mags in the past, writers have to write as that's how
they get paid. A writer doesn't nedcessarily endorse or agree with what
he is writing about and, as is the case with a story such this one is, may
hardly have the credentials or expertise to comment on his/her own.
Nor would the editor for whome he is writing for. This, however, is a
very effective article as it gets what a publication wants -- feedback, a
bit of controversy, and, best of all, free publicity.
So, as with anything else, use the suggestions as a starting point not as
gospel as to what you should or should not do.
And, oh yes, even so-called experts don't necessarily agree and that they
don't agree doesn't necessarily make either of them wrong.
Different folks balance things differently. Amnnd, oh yes, experts have
their biases and vested interests which they may protect.
Bible study has torn my life apart and remade it. That is to say that God,
through his Word, has done so.
-- Derek Tidball, author of "The Message of Holiness: Restoring God's
Masterpiece"
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