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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (34428)4/11/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I guess you forgot about the covenant with Abraham, huh. What about the covenant with Cain? Seems there were lots of covenants back then. And you still didn't explain all of the laws handed down by God reported in the Old Testament. Did God change his mind? Or did man change his mind about the nature of God? And if the Old Testament is a do-over, why do so many fundamentalists cling to Genesis as an accurate representation of the origins of the universe (despite being self-contradictory)?

Sidney, the problem in a nutshell is this. You believe in your faith. Others believe in different faiths. The operative words are belief and faith. Not proof and fact. That's why there are Taoists and Moslems and Buddhists. That's why there are Roman Catholics and Greek Orthodox. The clashes between those faiths is responsible for much of the world's misery. Sunnis vs. Shi'ites, Jews vs. Moslems, Moslems vs Russian Orthodox, etc, etc.

Let me give you a recent example. There was a Roman Catholic missionary (a physician whose name escapes me right now but for some reason I want to say Dr. Tom Dewey) who reported to American about the bogus killing of Catholics in North Vietnam. He mobilized Cardinal Spellman and the two started doing their best to get increased US involvement in the then quiescent Viet Nam civil war. They literally described the border between North and South as "the gates of hell". These two were as responsible as any for the deaths of around a million people! And all in the name of religion.

TTFN,
CTC
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