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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: What religions say
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Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 12:08:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 18 12:08:19 1984
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>>> Don't all religions say there exists a problem, here's the cause,
>>> and here's how to overcome that problem?  [WALSH]

>> No.  Christianity explains the problem, the cause of the problem, and how
>> the problem was solved.  [NORRIS]

> OK, so the difference between Christianity and all the others is that they
> solved the "problem" (whatever it might have been :-).  Now that it's done
> with and solved, I guess we don't need Christianity any more?  [DUNN]

Dick Dunn misses an interesting point about Christianity, problem solving, etc.
Every religion, Christianity included, has a system of beliefs.  But all of
these systems are nothing more (read my lips:   n o t h i n g   m o r e ) than
*proposed* *scenarios*.  The "evidence" that proponents put forth in favor of
their particular beliefs does not bear up under scrutiny.  And that is the crux
of the problem.
-- 
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"Oh, don't be such a baby!"	Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr