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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Date: 
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 00:40:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eugene Ipavec writes:
[snip Christianity discussion]  And as for the other
sort-of major religions: the Mormons, the Baha'i, the Zoroaster-worshippers,
New Age fuzzy-thinkers--the Christians spend a good amount of time and effort
trying to debunk them.

*sigh*

No matter how much I try, there's always going to be someone who tells me I am
not a Christian simply because I'm a Mormon.  I know it doesn't mean a whole
lot to mr. Ipavec, but it's fairly important to me.

Cheers,
- jsproat



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  Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
 
Jeremy, (...) Well, I do not know a lot about Mormonism (I have never studied too much into different branches of Christianity, I think there is a book of Mormons, isn't there?), so I am not a judge of whether you are a Christian or not (God is), (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
 
(...) Goodness, no. I meant nothing of the sort. Whether the LDS is Christian is as much for me to say as whether the Shi'ites are Moslem. Which is to say not at all. What I was referring to by the generic "Christians" was the sort of Protestant, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
 
(...) Because it is the only one--the only one in its weight class, at any rate--that can be disproved acording to internal, semi-objective standards. And whose followers won't whack you with a fatwa for trying. The other religions must not be that (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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