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To: elfman2
"If your life is "sorry and empty", then you are the one who may need help. If your own faith is so inadequate that you feel the need to publicly attack the tenets of others without cause, calling them "callous and unfulfilling", rather than promoting those of your own, then you may need to reexamine your own faith, your own emotional stability or your own character."

I may certainly express my beliefs of a religious practice that believes only in the here and now. I am familiar with the emptiness and unfulfilling character of a person who beleives that now is the only existence and that our only future is to be eaten by worms. If that can sustain you, more power to you. But Christians have a better way. Christians know that there is a better world beyond this one.

181 posted on 11/24/2001 9:08:37 PM PST by Don Myers
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To: Don Myers
"I may certainly express my beliefs of a religious practice that believes only in the here and now. I am familiar with the emptiness and unfulfilling character of a person who beleives that now is the only existence and that our only future is to be eaten by worms. If that can sustain you, more power to you. But Christians have a better way. Christians know that there is a better world beyond this one."

Of course you "may" express your beliefs. And if you think Christians have a better way, I'm happy for you. Sing it out man! But if in your desire to promote your faith, you try to leverage off of another by degrading it, you make an jerk of yourself.

I could rip into your faith with all the viciousness that you've just done to that of most Jews, but that would be counter productive. Doing so pits good men against one another and causes the best of them to think less of the one causing trouble, even some that share his faith or ideology.

If you find that you cant' stop this behavior, I'm sure the problems not with others.

189 posted on 11/25/2001 4:54:57 AM PST by elfman2
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To: Don Myers
I am familiar with the emptiness and unfulfilling character of a person who beleives that now is the only existence and that our only future is to be eaten by worms. If that can sustain you, more power to you. But Christians have a better way. Christians know that there is a better world beyond this one.

I used to be a Christian. I can honestly say that my life has never been more full than it is now.

192 posted on 11/25/2001 5:02:31 AM PST by Physicist
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