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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:18:11 -0500
- From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Another introduction...
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- Relgion again... Oh well it was bound to show up.
- I am a Christian and I do my best to live up to the ideals and
- teachings. I do my best to love everyone and to my knowledge I hate
- noone. I am not perfect and I often wind up hurting people almost never
- through conscious intent(I am not perfect) But usually through
- thoughtless.
- I believe that there is one and only one right. Only one road up the
- mountain. But in addition I believe that being wrong wrong does not
- make you evil.
- I believe in a just and benovolent God. One that would die to save
- even one of us much less all of us. I don't believe that he would be so
- arogant as to demand belief to be rescued.
- I believe in God's omnipotence. I believe that it does not neccisarily
- contradict science and that God has decided not ot intervene in modern
- times, for our good. So that we can evolve into what we are supposed to
- be. So that we can learn to love and care for one another.
- I belive in a human God. God made man in his own image. He became
- man. This leads me to believe that God may make mistakes and there are
- a couple of sources which kind of back me up. Firsty of all the flood
- story. God was going to wipe out mankind but decided to save a few,
- when he could have just as easily started over again. And when The
- isrealites were wandering in the desert several times it says that God
- repented of his plans.
- I believe that God gave us the law for a reason. It was supposed to be
- a guide to was is right. Most of the laws can be seen as an attempt to
- improve human behavior. Or to make the followers of these laws pillars
- of the community. For instance if you have the strictest set of dietary
- laws around there is no way that anyone could complain. BUt as I rember
- the Zoroastians(sp?) HAd a much stricter code. Other laws were common
- sense health matters, making latrines away from campsites... Then there
- were laws to make sure that the people were not going to be swallowed up
- by surrounding cultures. Take a look at hinduism in its developement.
- It absorbed local dieties into its pantheon or claimed that it was
- another manisfestion of Shiva, or Vishnu. All of the laws have some
- common sense grounding. Which may or may not be applicable today.
-
- I'll leave on this thought. Fundamental Christianity and Buddhism are
- very similar in one respect. Fundamental Christians believe that all
- people deserve to go to hell for eternity. Buddhist belive this has
- already happened(Well not quite for eternity just for a very very very
- long time)
-
- -I remember the the glory days when we sat with the king.
- Dining on meh yams and washing it down with red rum.
- ML5A@andrew.cmu.edu Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender
-