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To: Boxen
It wouldn't surprise me if a large number of atheists were like me: apathetic to religious belief instead of opposed to it.

I also have a live and let live attitude about people of faith, and for the most part that attitude is reciprocated. However, there's a substantial minority who can't seem to understand that I really don't want to live like they do and don't believe what they believe.

190 posted on 01/05/2007 1:24:36 PM PST by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Zeroisanumber
 However, there's a substantial minority who can't seem to understand that I really don't want to live like they do and don't believe what they believe.

They are compeled by this:

NIV Luke 14:16-23
 16.  Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.
 17.  At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, `Come, for everything is now ready.'
 18.  "But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, `I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.'
 19.  "Another said, `I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'
 20.  "Still another said, `I just got married, so I can't come.' 
 21.  "The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, `Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.'
 22.  "`Sir,' the servant said, `what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.'
 23.  "Then the master told his servant, `Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full.

 

They have forgotten this:

NIV Matthew 10:14
   If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.


207 posted on 01/06/2007 6:24:45 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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