Re: OT Religion

"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:wo6of.115958$Gd6.55830@pd7tw3no...
> Alistair wrote: 
>
> What makes you so special. They chucked holy water on my head (baptism),
> in 1931 - and I ain't heard anybody either.

Wow, to have been alive in 1931... CLC always makes me feel so young.

> Maybe Judson is just one of the lucky ones. I can't recall too many
> Catholics who have had a conversation either. Well there are exceptions,
> but their names are usually prefixed with "St."

The problem here is that *IF* Judson is right, then Alistair will suffer
in Hell because he did not believe in God. Judson seems to be able to
communicate with God more easily than the rest of us, and he gave some
advice. Alistair followed Judson's advice, and now is more confident than
earlier that God does not exist (and thus is more likely to go to Hell,
again assuming Judson is correct).

Now I hope Judson will forgive me for this next paragraph, as it gets
pretty close to defamation of character. I sincerely do not mean a personal
attack against Judson here...

Again, assuming that Christianity is correct, how do we know this is not
a "trick" by Judson, who intentionally wanted to increase Alistair's chances
of ending up in Hell? E.g. perhaps Judson was an agent of Satan, using
reverse psychology so to speak, to reinforce Alistair's disbelief in God.

The "unfairness" of this religion, as others have pointed out, is that
it seems like the condition for getting into heaven is to somehow be able to
detect these tricks and not get fooled by them. But when such trickery can
come from anywhere, and when the trickster is Satan (who is usually
portrayed as being extremely intelligent, e.g. the "Prince of Lies"), this
can be an insurmountable task for a mortal, whose intelligence is limited to
the mere "human-level".

- Oliver