| Howard Brazee 2008-01-31, 6:56 pm |
| On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:56:42 -0800 (PST),
"roger.pearse@googlemail.com" <roger.pearse@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>A bit cynical, surely? The ancient data base on any topic is seldom
>so extensive that we can't know *all* of it. Convenience is always a
>false belief system.
Surely.
But I see all over people who know their way is right (it works for
them) who if they analyze it at all, it's to justify their belief. An
obvious example is how they search hard to "prove" that homosexuals
are dammed, while ignoring commandments from God that don't fit modern
life styles. Another example is when someone denounces someone
with a different political view than theirs as being "unpatriotic".
That doesn't bother me nearly as much as those who expand that to say
that other ways are wrong - and that those who have other ways will be
punished by them, if not in this world, in the next. Quite often
they aren't content to wait for the next world and s to punish them
now.
While this is common with various forms of '-ism" (Patriotism,
Communism, Islam, etc.), Christianity has a hope for those who believe
in emulating WWJD (What would Jesus do), who should note that Jesus'
example was to do good, even if it disagreed with the scriptures'
"right".
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