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In lugnet.general, David Schwanke writes:
> No he was basically showing dont judge a book by its spiritual cover.
>
> Its a sad an unfortunate thing that todays churches are regularly filled
> with people who look and act and seem like the nicest people around but in
> fact are anything but saved. (And usually are anything but nice on the
> inside.)
>
> Then there is the other hand where there are people who look grungy and
> nasty and dirty and go to church and are some of the most beautiful
> spiritual people you will ever meet.
>
> Nothing wrong with the second except that many people will judge the book by
> the cover and give a 'kudos' to the first person and snub their noses at the
> second. Which to Christ is bass ackwards.
>
> Remember with Christ it was the prostitutes and tax collectors that were
> considered more 'real and spiritual' and found it easier to hear Christ then
> the pharisees with all their rule following and 'fitting in' to 'spiritual
> culture'. (Not to say that a pharisee couldnt be saved, I'm sure some
> were. But the majority of them were so caught up in looking the part and
> acting the part that they never got around to actually BEING the part. Or
> some didnt want to be 'real' in that way.)
>
> Sorry if I am going overboard and you were just making a retorihical comical
> comment. :)
>
> On a reality side note, you could have called me part of the second. I came
> from the raver grunge crowd so when I first started going to church I wore
> all black with long unkempt hair and a huge unkempt beard. I also rarely
> washed my hair so it was pretty thick and matted. But those first few
> months (as is with most people that come through as dramatic a conversion as
> I did) I was so on fire for the Lord you could probably have toasted
> marshmellows off my soul.
>
> Sorry if the post is now off topic. Not sure how this would classify in
> this setting.
Oh, Hi David. After reading the follow-ups on this thread, I realized you
were that seller I greeted with a request to keep religion out of BrickLink
a few months ago.
Matt has used this incident as a way of "prooving" that I don't respect
others. So I thought to myself : Yeah, you should maybe drop a line to
David to let him know it was nothing personnal. So here it is.
I hope you are not mad at me for my request. I had done something similar a
year earlier about religion too and it started a war then too. I don't like
wars, but I strongly feel compelled to react when I feel something isn't right.
I have nothing against you and the harsh words that might have been said
when we were arguing on BL are behind me. Just don't say you'll pray for me
and I won't flame you ! ;-)
It seems that everytime a religious discussions starts, it's because of me!
I wish I didn't have that reputation of starting wars!
Peace,
Terry
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