On 3/25/07, Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You didn't answer the question..unless you think Christianity teaches one to be sexually repressed, superstitious and unreasonable? Can you show me where in the New Testament it says that? I'm not sure your own comments are, to use your words, "conclusions of reason". Chris
The problem Chris, is not the New Testament. The problem is the Puritans who decide following Calvin to interpret it in a narrow way and who believe they have a right to impose their beliefs on the rest of us. And yes they do preach sexual repression. I say, "Fuck them!" I am _not_ a Christian, but I could be if it were not for the requirement that I believe in Christ. That entire scheme seems to me to be such an incredibly bizarre set of scenarios as to require of me a complete denial of reality. Maaybe God is just playing a big joke on us all and so asking that we believe absurdities. Could be, but I doubt it. Look, I was raised on the Christian stuff. ... Sorry but it makes next to no sense to me. It has never caused me anything but pain. Imaginative compassion though, is the common thread that all of the religions in the world promote. This is for me the core of all of these systems. So at the end of it all I believe they are all the same. They try to teach us to love and understand one another ... not an easy thing to do. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
