Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: emory!dragon!cms@gatech.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Christians abetting Satan? (Was: gulf crisis, spiritual help...) Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 01:21:32 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Projects Unlimited Lines: 41 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , davidh@tektronix.tek.com (David L Hatcher) writes: > In article bgsuvax!kutz@cis.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth J. Kutz) writes: >>In article , daveh@tekcrl.labs.tek.com (David Hatcher) writes: >> > The "or else" at least with in this time frame of history is not > being pushed outwardly. It has in the past with death as the payment > for the "or else". But what I'm pointing towards now is what happening > to the person inwardly when they grasp that inner feeling that everyone > *has* to become a Christian. The "or else" that is an aspect of > that inner feeling has a way of bubbling up to manifest bigotry and > separation. > > Now I do not feel that Christ likes the type of thinking that > has a way of creating separation. I've seen a number of family > ties broken up because of this over riding feeling. Devout Christian feelings can be misused to create an atmosphere of "convert or else." The passage escapes me wherein Paul says those married to pagans should stay married and pray for the conversion of their spouses. At any rate, in Luke 12:51-53, Jesus says: "Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." > David Hatcher -- Sincerely, Cindy Smith _///_ // SPAWN OF A JEWISH _///_ // _///_ // <`)= _<< CARPENTER _///_ //<`)= _<< <`)= _<< _///_ // \\\ \\ \\ _\\\_ <`)= _<< \\\ \\ \\\ \\ <`)= _<< >IXOYE=('> \\\ \\ \\\ \\_///_ // // /// _///_ // _///_ // emory!dragon!cms <`)= _<< _///_ // <`)= _<< <`)= _<< \\\ \\<`)= _<< \\\ \\ \\\ \\ GO AGAINST THE FLOW! \\\ \\ A Real Live Catholic in Georgia