[FairfieldLife] RE: What do 70% of Americans believe in?

2013-10-29 Thread authfriend
Very un-Christian of them. Nobody is irredeemable, according to Christian doctrine. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Pure evil. Satan. From the article: How can we measure people's belief in pure evil (BPE) and what consequences does such a

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What do 70% of Americans believe in?

2013-10-29 Thread Share Long
Furthermore, if the novels of Susan Howatch have any veracity in them, and I think they do, then we all have the capacity to be evil in us. Focusing on the devil is simply another way to project that capacity onto someone outside of ourselves. I think this is what all fundamentalist religions

[FairfieldLife] RE: What do 70% of Americans believe in?

2013-10-29 Thread s3raphita
Re Nobody is irredeemable, according to Christian doctrine.: Calvin might not have agreed - God has predestinated some to salvation, and others to destruction. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@... wrote: Very un-Christian of them. Nobody is irredeemable, according to