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From: jimc@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: offensive to EVERYONE
Message-ID: <306@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 23:59:05 EST
Article-I.D.: haddock.306
Posted: Fri Nov 16 23:59:05 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Nov-84 05:07:42 EST
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Nf-From: haddock!jimc    Nov 16 10:50:00 1984

Your article really is not all that offensive, as what you have 
said about the EXTERNAL realities of the Judeo-Christian churches 
is basically true.  However, your article seems to entirely 
exclude the possiblity that God is a reality in human life, and 
that we, as His children, can learn and grow through His 
guidance.  Therefore, I add a fifth criterion to your assessment 
of organized worship: 

	5) Does your organization seek to draw you closer to God,
	   from Whom all good things come, and with Whom our 
	   destinies lie?

THAT is where our churches differ from these cults and sects you 
describe.

				Jim Campbell
				"Catholic and proud of it... "