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From: danny@itm.UUCP (Danny)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Christianity: revisited
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 16:35:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 16:35:41 1984
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    Actually, in regards to people, I agree with what Spaf said
a while back.  Try to find something attractive in *everyone* you
meet.  This includes Christians.  We are all people here, with
varying styles of everything, including the amount of flaming we
do.  So, okay, knock off the "I'm right and you're wrong, so there!" bit.

    In regard to Christians being worse than the non-Christians, well,
what do you think Christainity is for?  Jesus said that he came not
to help the rightous, but the down-trodden (I know that's a little
hard to take, fellow Christians, but that's life).

    Concerning what others regard as sin and my life, we are told
*not* to judge, and not to be a stumbling block.  So, then, what
to me is a sin, and what to you is a sin is strictly between me
and my God, and you and yours; with one exception: I shouldn't do
what my brother considers a sin in his presence, for that would
become a stumbling block in his life.  Paul the Apostle spoke of
this in the "eating of meat sacrificed to idols".

    Overall, I have to say that I know great folks who are Christians.
I also know great folks who aren't.  That doesn't make we wish to
avoid the one, or the other.  We all are here for a comparatively
short time, and I think we should make the best of it.

    If I were to say to you that I know a better way, and you tell
me that you don't care for it, then that's that.  I haven't lost a
friend, we just disagree.  I won't try to force my religion down
yer throat, and I expect the same from you.

    That last paragraph could be construed to be a plug for
You-Know-What, but I didn't intend it to be.

    In summary, I believe anyone can be friends, no matter what
their background.  And isn't that what being is single all about?
Friends?

                                        Danny
-- 
				Daniel S. Cox
				({gatech|akgua}!itm!danny)