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- From: npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan)
- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:05:52 GMT
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- John Muehlhausen (muehlhau@en.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:
- >
- > What strikes me more than anything is that you have not presented any
- > problems associated with Biblical faith. Rather, the ones you have
- > presented are a result of faith which is lacking, and the problems
- > would not go away were this faith to be dropped (if it could be).
-
- I can see one problem easily summarized in your preceeding paragraph.
- I hear so often, especially from New Ageists, there's nothing wrong
- with the belief, it's that "something is holding you back", or
- "you don't believe enough". If you REALLY, REALLY believed your
- cancer would be cured, or your marriage would be saved.
-
- What a cop out. That can only lead to putting more guilt and even
- greater burden on the "failed" believer. Thus increasing their own
- particular brand of mental anguish.
-
- > For example, hatred of homosexuals is not a Biblical theme.
- > Hatred of homosex certainly is, which is not the same thing. Don't
- > go off on some psychological tangent on me here-- THEY ARE NOT THE
- > SAME THING, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE. How do I know? Because I love
- > homosexuals and hate what some of them do. If I can do it, it can be
- > done. Jesus certainly had this attitude.
-
- Why don't Christians hate fortune tellers and psycis with the same
- ferocity as they do homosexuals. Or, okay, hate what they do.
- Both are considered taboo, and I don't think one was supposed to be
- worse than the other, in the Bible. But I bet the majority of
- a fortune tellers customers are religious, and most likely
- Christian. But Christians don't seem to care much about "psychics".
- >
- > _Is_ having the Mind of the Bible Believer damaging to the individual
- > or society? I have yet to see it.
-
- It depends on the Bible Believer. I've read that fundamentalists
- Christians are considerably more likely to be child abusers than
- non-churched people.
-
- > Happy Christmas!
- > John M.
-
- Happy Mid-Winter celebration! :)
-
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