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From: owens@gitpyr.UUCP (Gerald Owens)
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Subject: Re: 2 Chuq articles
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 11:25:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 11:25:16 1985
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> 
>  
> >From Chuq Von Rospach (nsc!chuqui):
> > 
> >>> Without the pretty face she will not buy the package at all.  
> >
> >> If you aren't careful, your Manufacturer could get sued for
> >> deceptive packaging that way.
> >
> >No, I'm the one who makes the package; it's not His fault.
> 
> If you fail, He can't be sued. If you succeed, why should He get the credit
> then? That's what you are doing, you know, taking the failures upon
> yourself without the praises. It goes both ways, jeff. 

	Listen carefully, Jeff.  Chuqi was saying something that I had realized
last June.  I refused to accept it, told God to take a hike and not come
back until He took His own sense of justice seriously.  did it hurt?  Sure.
I was POSITIVE I'd get shafted in a class I was taking, since He'd get SOOO
mad at me.  But then, it wouldn't have been just, would it??  I realized
that too.  In a sense, I was scared of Living without God, afraid of what
would happen to me.  Why, I would have to accept the failures that happened
to me!  Of course, He was making me do that anyhow, so I told Him to
go away until He got serious.

	Of course, all this wasn't God, but what I had interpreted to be
God, that is, the small voice in my head that gives a running
commentary of all that I do.  We ALL have this small voice inside.  For
many, it takes on an approving tone. For you, it's always disapproving.
I told my little voice (or twerp, as I call it) that I wasn't going to
listen to it, that it was ridiculous and unfair, so just shut up or change
it's tone.  I reasoned that if it WASN'T God, then God wouldn't mind, while
if it WAS God, then I'd be better off without a god like that.

	Well, I got an "A" in the class, I FINALLY think I'm succeeding
in finding an SO (I first met her two weeks AFTER I told "God" to take a
walk), and "God" finally "came back" and "said" that He was sorry and wouldn't
be so unjust again.

	The cardinal rule in a religious life is this:  Refuse to lie
for ANYBODY. For yourself, for your neighbor, for your friends, even for God.
If the main support for a belief rests upon a weakness of the adherent,
then the system finds it advantageous to keep the adherent weak, and
not help him/her become strong.  Is your VERSION of Christianity one
that helps you, or could it possibly be trying to hurt you, and is
disguised as an "angel of light"?

	To everyone else:  Sorry about the public nature of this
response to Jeff.  Chuqi said something that I just HAD to quote.  I felt
that Jeff's problem is religious at it's base, as was mine, so forgive
the fact that this wasn't posted to net.religion


-- 
Gerald Owens
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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