Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-ee!kechkayl From: kechkayl@ecn-ee.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Sub-human Christian attitudes - (nf) Message-ID: <1591@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 21:19:52 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1591 Posted: Tue Feb 14 21:19:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 03:33:38 EST Sender: notes@pur-ee.UUCP Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 28 #R:pucc-h:-54100:ecn-ee:18600007:000:1373 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!"