[muawiyah]

I've read it all - many times. It amazes me that you can derive anything but a traditional Calvinist point of view out of it.

Insofar as your interpretation varies from ours, it must be in error, eh?!

[GWfan]

I had absolutely no idea from reading your posts that you were a Calvinist. I thought you read from an altered Bible.

As for God knowing who's prayers to listen to, I can only go by what I know is in the Bible. I am not to bow down to any other god, or to acknowledge another god as an equal to the Triune God or as deserving of praise. Anything to the contrary is an abomination before the Triune God.

I love my country and it's people, different as they may be. But my first duty is to love my God with all my soul, with all my strength and with all my mind. My second duty is to love my neighbor as myself. These are not to be reversed. In the yankee stadium event, they were. All clergy put the country first. That IS against my religion and the command of Jesus himself.

[GWfan]

Please read post 66, it was meant for you.

[GWfan]

I meant 67!!! I need some sleep.