KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

You can fool some of the people all of the time And all of the people some of the time, but. ..

You Can't Fool Mom: Hort

Hort's mother appears to have been an evangelical Christian. Her influence seems to have provided the Christian branch of his syncretistic tree. Hort's biography states, he "outgrew the Evangelical teaching which he came to regard as "sectarian . .fanaticism. . . perverted." Of his mother, Hort's biography states: Her religious feelings were deep and strong. . .[H]is mother was .. .an adherent of the Evangelical school and she was to a certain degree hampered by it. . .She was unable to enter into his theological views which to her generation seemed a desertion of the ancient way; thus pathetically enough, there came to be a barrier between mother and son. The close intercourse on subjects which lay nearest to the hearts of each was broken. . . [Concerning] her different point of view,. . .he. . .had to recognize that the point of view was different. She studied and knew her bible well.1 His mother wrote to him, pleading that he would not be

"missing" from,

. . .the many mansions of our Heavenly Father's House and my darling, Now happy it will be if we all meet there; no one missing of all our household.2

As Hort's career progressed, he retained his distaste for Evangelicals who held tenaciously to the "articles of the Christian faith." Hort writes to Lightfoot mocking an Evangelical Bishop:

. . .Claughton's fierce denunciation of everyone who questions an article of the Christian faith as an enemy of God and holiness.3 [There are] serious differences between