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Subject: Re: Re: Poor Ken's Xtian view of the 8 yr. old dying
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Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 14:02:39 EDT
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>>I changed from Christianity to Raja Yoga when I realized that the Biblical
>>world view made no sense. Reincarnation, spiritual growth and evolution
>>to God-consciousness explains more of the inequalities of life on earth.
> 
> Well, at least you're giving all the "heathens and atheists" on the net
> another choice of how to resolve the dilemma.
> -- 
> 
> Paul Dubuc	cbdkc1!pmd

Nope.  A Heathen is someone who's not either Christian or Jewish, though
sometimes members of the Islamic faith are included in the set of heathen, 
and sometimes in the set of non-heathen.  Contrasting with an infidel, 
which is usually a non-Christian or non-Muslim, or a kaffir, which is almost
always a non-Muslim.  Now a pagan is usually a polytheist, though not
a Christian, and obviously not a Jew or Muslim, though a pagan may also be
any non-(Christian | Jew | Muslim), even if that pagan's a monotheist.
A gentile is usually one who's non-Jewish, though it also is used to 
specify someone who's non-Morman, and sometimes someone who's specifically
Christian.  I think most of this confusion stems from the fact that the 
non-(heathen | infidel | pagan) but possibly gentile people made up the
language.
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