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From: kechkayl@ecn-ee.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Re: Sub-human Christian attitudes - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 21:19:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 21:19:52 1984
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ecn-ee!kechkayl    Feb 14 12:44:00 1984

  "Do it because I am the true God.  Do it because not giving it up will do
  nasty things to you, quite apart from Me; if you set anything but Me up as
  God, it will go sour on you, it will crack under the weight of being god,
  which no one but I am strong enough to support, it will make you unhappy
  NOT to give it up; but it will ultimately make YOU happy to go ahead and
  give it up.  

Well, Jeff, If god told me that, I would still ask for reasons. First, I was
not talking about setting something up as God, I was simply talking about
a belief. It IS possible to hold a belief without setting it up as God.
Secondly, many beliefs DO make you unhappy, but that can't stop you from
believing them. For instance, belief in freedom may force you to fight and
die, something which I woudn't particularily want to do, but that will not
cause me to renounce my belief in it. Being an adult includes the responsibility
to stick to what you truly believe in, no matter what. If you REALLY believe
in an ideal or principle, you will continue to believe in it until you have
good evidence to the contrary. (No matter if it makes you happy or otherwise!)

On the bright side, thanks for the reasonable tone of your article. Maybe
I've been reading too much net.flame lately, but it struck me as a relief.

					Thomas Ruschak
					ecn-ee!kechkayl
					"Aiee! A toy robot!"