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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: More replies to Ken (and general comments)
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 11:11:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 11:11:19 1984
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> > You can't help yourself.
> >That is one of the major points of Christianity.  There is nothing that a man
> >can do to save himself.
> 
> Bogus, bogus, bogus, bogus, bogus. Off the scale on the bogus meter. If
> you are sitting on a railroad track and a train comes along, is there
> nothing you can do to save yourself, or do you step OFF of the track?
> Why should God what to save you if you don't care enough about yourself to
> do something about it yourself?

This is a good point.  I would even guess that Ken would agree with
it, as far as it goes.  Ken's sentence would be more complete if it
said "there is nothing that a man can do to save himself *by himself*."
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Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois