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From: jnelson@trwrba.UUCP (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Intolerance in Net.Religion
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 19:31:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 19:31:48 1984
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   Hasn't there been enough blood-letting over the last few millenia
   about religion and religious issues?

No.

   Must we now engage in an electronic version of religious warfare?

Yes.

   Please let's ALL try a little harder to see the other person's point
   of view, okay? We are not going to bring peacefull non-violence to
   the world by fighting a war (verbal or otherwise) to achieve it.

Wait a minute... let me write that down...

   I hope that in the future people will finally put an end to all this
   hatefulness by learning to co-operate and tolerate other peoples
   opinions on "religious" matters.

Why is it that the "religionists" as we have come to know and love them,
become so impatient with those that don't believe?  Surely they must
realize that the search for God and the truth is an important one and
cannot be resolved by one or two lame articles.  No one has come up
with any REALLY satisfying answers to the questions, "Is there a God,"
"Is there life after death," "Why are people born," "Why do they die."

Surely they must realize that a comprehension of the truth and of the
true nature of God is not aquired overnight.  If this is indeed an
all-powerful and omniscient God, then I wouldn't be surpised if it
took alife-time... several life-times, even, to fully understand
him.  The easy neat answers put forth by the religionists and the
atheists are equally repulsive... although I believe that the
non-believers have made significantly more convincing arguments
for their views.


					- John