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To: bondserv
" Do you live within the borders of the United States of America?"

Yes. North Carolina.

"How do you stomach living amongst a majority of people (In the Carolinas) that believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?"

Why do you think it would bother me?

"Are they all just completely deluded psychos?"

No, why would you think I thought that?

"How far do you have to drive to avoid a building that houses your fellow citizens who weekly are being taught and believing that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day?"

Why do you think I avoid churches? Is there any reason I SHOULD avoid them?

" There was a time in history when people believed based on tradition, but these United States of America changed all that."

It did? When? Your beliefs are not based on a tradition?

"You must feel a foreigner."

No, I feel like an American.

"Talk with your local Christian that you find respectable."

My whole family are Christian (Catholic to be exact); can I just call them instead? I already have a calling plan.

"Our Lord Jesus was persuasive, but never coercive; unlike other belief systems in this world, including Scientism."

You mean science, not *Scientism*. Science is just a way to examine the physical world, a methodology. I am sorry you feel so threatened by it.
92 posted on 09/10/2005 3:58:48 PM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
"Are they all just completely deluded psychos?"

No, why would you think I thought that?

Belief in the Resurrection is not something that requires faith. It is a historical event better documented than anything in Ancient History. It would be like saying belief in the success of the American Revolution requires faith. Belief in Aristotle, Plato and Socrates is unquestioned by most rational people, and their doings are scarcely documented.

As reinforcement, the end of the road for the Disciples of Christ was a gruesome death, because of their unfailing message of the truth of the Resurrection.

Islam was propagated by individuals that could rape and pillage as reward for their faith, and we don't question the existence, words and doings of Mohammad of which was far less documented than Christ's life 800 years before him.

Liberals are deluded by their revisionist view of reality and we can spot them by their fruits. Whereas most Christians aspire to a higher set of standards upon which personal responsibility is a key to the success of a free society.

People are miraculously transformed by accepting the pardon that Jesus offers through His death. People who become personally responsible, when they were complete flakes days before. Ask some of your Christian friends who did not grow up in a Christian tradition.

Scientism is a belief system that bases reality on a purely materialistic worldview. Anything supernatural can be considered superstition.

A person who follows Scientism is easy to spot. A conservative with a broken moral compass. Dr. James Dobson is the enemy, as well as a certain School Board member from Kansas.

Followers of Scientism also hate that the Founders chose to say: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Unalienable rights are derived from the Creator, not the conceptions of mankind.

106 posted on 09/10/2005 9:52:38 PM PDT by bondserv (Creation sings a song of praise, Declaring the wonders of Your ways †)
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