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- From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: God and Science: The Ramblings of The Nightstalker
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 04:33:49 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- Speaker-To-Minerals sayeth...
- >It's been my experience that there's frequently a vast gulf
- >between what Christians pay lip service to and what they actually do. When
- >they start claiming the stuff to which a large number of Christians only pay
- >lip service as one of the accomplishments of Christianity, I won't let that
- >pass unchallenged, especially when there are many non-Christians who actually
- >DO what so many Christians only talk about.
-
- Well, to be fair, isn't it the case that the vast majority of people fail
- (sometimes by a large amount) to live up to their professed ideals? I know
- there are times when I've caught myself, before or after the fact ...
-
- No-one's perfect. I will pay a certain amount of respect to a person who
- has a set of morals, tries to live up to it, and fails.
-
- As another aside ... Christianity has historically been a missionary
- religion (one of few). So you could say that someone who tries to 'spread
- the word' is living up to some of the traditional values of the religion.
- Similarly, since the Christian God is quoted as calling himself a jealous
- God, it's unlikely that someone who believes those quotes is going to admit
- the possible validity of other moral systems.
-
- Obviously, there are branches of Christianity which don't attempt to spread
- themselves or deny other ways of salvation! You just don't tend to hear
- much of them ...
-
- Pax?
-