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- From: pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel)
- Subject: Re: A paper I wrote for a speech class
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:29:00 GMT
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- wpr@atlanta.dg.com (Bill Rawlins) writes:
- > You are right about intolerance. You are wrong about hate. You don't
- > understand or you are are merely throwing out a term to help you justify
- > your own rebellion to God. God loves you - yet he has a set of laws that
- > he will enforce. Would you expect the police not to enforce their laws
- > that have been written? Examine the Bible and repent (which means to
- > turn from your ways and surrender to God's ways). Hold your anger back
- > long enough to think about it. And I won't say, "I told you so" when
- > you do. I will rejoice, not for my sake, but for yours.
- > Read Romans 3:23-25, John 3:16. Jesus is the one who can reconcile you
- > to God, if you turn to him.
-
- Bill, read the Tao Teh Ching and free yourself from this evil obsession. You
- should be able to find a version available for anonymous ftp at
- kandinsky.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au in /pub. A snippet:
-
- 38. Religion
- ------------
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- The kind act without self-interest;
- The just act to serve self-interest;
- The religious act to reproduce self-interest.
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- For when Tao is lost, there is love;
- When love is lost, there is kindness;
- When kindness is lost, there is justice;
- And when justice is lost, there is religion.
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- Well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted;
- Closely held beliefs are not easily released;
- So religions enthrall generation after generation.
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- Religion is the dissolution of love and trust,
- The beginning of confusion;
- Faith is a colourful hope or fear,
- The origin of folly.
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- The sage goes by knowledge, not by hope;
- He dwells in the fruit, not the flower;
- He accepts the former, and rejects the latter.
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