Subject:
|
Re: GODMONEY (was re: Anthrax worse than AIDS?)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:11:35 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
421 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
>
> > Agreed--just as David Koresh was not a true Christian.
>
> How's that? I'd call Koresh a Christian, just not a mainstream one. What does
> it take to be a 'true' Christian?
What does it take to be a 'true' vegetarian? I would say that a 'true'
vegetarian is one who accepts and lives by the behaviors demanded by
vegetarianism, ie not eating meat. A 'true' Christian, I would suggest, is
one who accepts and lives by the behaviors and beliefs demanded by
Christianity, which include, for instance, not proclaiming oneself the
messiah. In addition, you're separating "mainstream" from "true," but I
don't feel that in this context the two are really separate.
I'm not a great source for defending the specifics of 'true' Christianity,
but some here probably could. I certainly don't accept the tenets of that
faith, either, but I can posit that, assuming tenets exist, one who lives by
those tenets is more 'true' to the faith than one who does not.
Dave!
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
22 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
