Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site convex.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!ahearn From: ahearn@convex.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Understanding the Bible - (nf) Message-ID: <45700017@convex.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 12:23:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convex.45700017 Posted: Sat Aug 11 12:23:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 06:56:19 EDT Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #N:convex:45700017:000:1093 Nf-From: convex!ahearn Aug 11 11:23:00 1984 #N:convex:45700017:000:1093 convex!ahearn Aug 11 11:23:00 1984 Oh great, the Spirit leads us to bigotry... what next? Ken, what you say is so far out of line with the *spirit* of the New Testament that I have to assume that *you've* fallen out of fellowship with God. It appears to to me that Jesus lived and died trying to blow people out of their bigoted little universes. It also appears to me that you can make an excellent case that Jesus came to "save" all mankind. Go back and read the Gospel of John, for crying out loud. (And then read Tolstoy, John of the Cross, Augustine, Anselm, Theresa of Avila, Thomas Merton). Sometimes this notesfile brings startling clarity to Nietzsche's assertion that Christianity is the religion of slaves and fools. Please, don't try to use your horrific **concept** of God to try justify your own closed mind. Or if you do, make sure to claim your proper lineage with other great defenders of the faith--Torquemada, the Borgias, Cromwell, Khoemeini. Joe Ahearn {allegra, ihnp4, uiucds, ctvax}!convex!ahearn -------------------------------------------------------- "...if this isn't a joke, he's really sick..."