[Cal]

When I say "unique" I simply mean unique in the sense all the members are unique. I think that each person gives unique insight into and expression of God simply because each is unique. No one can duplicate your temperament, experience and knowledge. Therefore your take on reality is going to have your flavor. I think that's the way God expresses his multifarious wisdom. It don't think we taint the expression of God by being unique, I think we enhance it. God is so big it takes all of us and our legitimate differences to express Him.

If you remove uniqueness from Lee, you remove it from yourself. If you say Lee had nothing new to say, then you also say neither do you. If you have nothing new to say, then you are utterly redundant and replaceable. And if you have nothing new to say, why are you bothering to say anything?

Now, when I say "new" or "unique" I don't mean in the sense that Lee or anyone else is so unlike anyone as to be in a level all by himself. This is how some in the LRC view Lee. No, I simply mean in the sense every servant of God is new and unique. The same way every child is new and unique. You might have two children who sing the same song, but you appreciate the differences in how each performs it. You don't write off one because the other already sang the song. You listen to it again, because you know even though it's the same, it's different.

Don't get so caught up in stripping Lee of his lofty reputation that you strip him of what is legitimately his. Because if you can do it to him then someone can do it to you.