On Sunday, 5th October 2003 at 10:10:45 (GMT -0500), which was 17:10 in Bratislava, Slovakia, Mark A. Foster wrote in his 2450 bytes heavy post:
> Nonetheless, orthopraxy, or works, has continued to be regarded > as a condition for salvation by the vast majority of Christians. > Unfortunately, especially in the United States and Australia, > fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals, who globally constitute only a > tiny percentage of Protestants, have tried to claim ownership of the > term "Christian" and to exclude those who do not conform to their > revised (1875-1914) interpretation of the Bible. Yes. Just today I stumbled upon the following: http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp This is so gross and crude you might scream. I notice they even have someone translating the tracts into (bad) Slovak. Who could be their intended audience, I wonder? In Slovakia, where up to 80% of population claim to be Catholic, the traditional Catholics are pretty fundamentalist as it is. These efforts are mind-boggling. For a good laugh (or groan of pain), I recommend the following tract on Mark's favourite topic (evolution vs. creation): http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp -- Yours, Alex. www.avenarius.sk [processed by "The Bat!", Version 2.00] ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
