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From: hua@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA (Ernest Hua)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Why should YOU believe ...
Message-ID: <205@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 06:49:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 06:49:15 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 08:47:51 EST
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I would like to know why a lot of people believe in a deity or in the super-
natural.  Is it because ...

        [A]  your parents or relatives or pastors or friends have always
             believed?

        [B]  you have experienced a miracle or some other supernatural
             event?

        [C]  you have studied {whatever..you fill in this space} extensively
             and have concluded from your studies that this is so?

        [D]  you have thought about it for a while and have concluded that
             there are such things?

        [E]  you just believe in them without any reason?

        [F]  {you fill in this space if you do not see your situation above}
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Personally, I have yet to find any `good` reason to believe in any particular
god or gods.  Can you give me one?  (I am completely serious!)  If you respond
to this request, please give me SPECIFIC details!  I have yet to encounter
anyone who can give me anything other than some rosy poetic essay telling
me about Jesus Christ dying for me.  If it were anyone else other than Jesus,
I bet the average person will say,"Gee, what a silly thing to do!"  I bet some
will even say something more provocative.  I have sent for and received a book
well advertised on TV called POWER FOR LIVING.  It seems to me that they are
making a lot of assumptions before they even begin to write it.  (For one
thing, the book is definitely oriented toward Christianity while ruling
out all other religions.)  It is also rather nasty as it portrays the space
shuttle as though it were nothing more than scrap metal.  It says that the
eagle is far superior to the shuttle.  (I would like to see what happens to
the eagle on reentry!)

By the way, there are a lot of religions!  Only ONE could be absolutely
right, if any at all.  Therefore, if you are not religiously neutral,
the odds are against you!

Comments?  Any one?
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