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Re: The Origins Debate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:21:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kirby Warden writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > Spot on. I have no beef with religion or any other dogma except when it
> > obstructs progress.
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> "The more i know, the more I know I don't know"... and all that...
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> I am comming to realize that i can in fact still believe in an all powerful
> God, just not as the Bible dictates that I should.
As a Christian, I agree that if many so-called Christian leaders had their
way we'd all be almost Amish. As I've said before, I believe it's because
most Christians are guilt-motivated. They really don't know what to think
and as such are afraid of everything.
Kirby, I don't know if I'd say, "just not as the Bible dictates" so much as,
"just not as the Bible is taught by most religious knuckle-heads." I'm a
firm believer in living what you yourself think and understand God to be -
after all, you must answer for yourself, not for what Pastor So-and-so said
you should. I'm one of the biggest cynics in Christendom - I don't take
anyone's word for anything without checking things out for myself.
Ekspecially if they're on TV - that pretty much shuts me off right away.
Live what *YOU* believe and phooey on them.
Bill
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| (...) I think that this is the stance I have been leaning towards the past year or so. I feel rather lonely in church these days as I no longer "see" as the majority of the congregation seems to. Blind faith ("dogma" I suppose) seems to work at (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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