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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Future evolution of Creationism
- Message-ID: <1768@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:43:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan12.183311.9524@aurora.com> <1993Jan13.142610.16361@medtron.medtronic.com>
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- In article <1993Jan13.142610.16361@medtron.medtronic.com>, ds0007@medtronic.COM (Dale Skiba) writes:
- |>
- |> 1) The central belief of Christian Fundamentalist Creationists is
- |> that the world is on a downward spiral of moral decay. (This
- |> really does seem to have alot truth to it.)
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- Hmm, people have been saying this as far back as there are sufficient records.
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- |> 3) They then conclude that the only way to turn this situation
- |> around is to get USA society to return to their Christian roots.
- |> (It is true that if everyone started acting like Jesus, most of
- |> these problems would go away, but this country does have freedom
- |> of religion, so some of their tactics are very questionable.)
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- Also, I do not see that trying to *force* people to act like Jesus is how
- Jesus handled things - he mostly called people to *voluntarily* live a better
- life. So thier approach is also theologically unsound.
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- |> 4) These vitally important Christian roots include the literal
- |> interpretation of the book of Genesis. This is where you
- |> find Creationism's true purpose.
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- Yep, I find I can be a Christian without taking any such stand at all.
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