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- From: chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman)
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.190208.15034@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:02:08 GMT
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- > chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
- >> cs225b26@eng-nxt09.cso.uiuc.edu (cs225 student) writes:
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- >> [--fire and brimstone sermon deleted--]
-
- >> May I ask a question, as one God-fearing Christian to another?
-
- >> Is God playing some kind of "gotcha"-type game? I mean, if
- >> getting or administering an abortion merited eternal damnation,
- >> don't you think God would have explicitly warned us?
-
- > Does this mean you are not a God-fearing Christian?
- > A yes answer requires no further explanation.
- > A no answer, i.e. that you ARE a God-fearing Christian, does.
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- > For instance, isn't Christianity an anal-retentive religion in your
- > eyes?
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- For heaven's sake, Peter, why would you set me up with a straight line
- like that?
-
- Do you believe that God playing some kind of "gotcha"-type game?
-
- --
- Chris Lyman / email: chrisl@pwcs.stpaul.gov / Disclaimer: I said WHAT?
- "If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some
- memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin'
- it, even if they don't know what it means." -- Walt Kelly, "Pogo"
-