Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-gandalf!hua 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 Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-g.205 Posted: Tue Feb 5 06:49:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 08:47:51 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 46 _______________________________________________________________________________ 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} _______________________________________________________________________________ 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? _______________________________________________________________________________ KEEBLER