Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: A first cut at Tolerance (long - sorry) Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 91 00:03:06 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu lindborg@cs.washington.edu (Jeff Lindborg) writes: >I have no desire to >exist for all eternity in any form, period. Whether that is what you *desire* doesn't really have much to do with it, does it? Either you will or you won't, and the object is to determine which of those two alternatives is the case. >you are supposed to convince them of the truth and validity >of your set of beliefs. Unfortunately many Christians in their zeal to >do just this go so far as to employ violence and repression to meet these >ends... A problem for sure. Just remember that not all of us are like that. Some of us simply find the evidence for the Biblical record and for Christianity compelling, and have therefore surrendered in faith to Jesus. Some of us also find the evidence and the experience worthy of telling others about. You're allowed to believe whatever you want. That's what free will is all about. But if you're wrong, you're wrong. All the sincerity in the world can't make up for being sincerely wrong. -- Geoff Allen uunet!pmafire!geoff geoff@pmafire.inel.gov