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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: PROLIFE who wrote (506494)	12/9/2003 11:57:19 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Absolutely! He's seems to have put a lot more effort into understanding the original undiluted message of Jesus than most folks. Did you look to the Jesus Seminar posting? (See the index.) members.aol.com And did you see this link, where it speculates that Southern Baptists are no longer 'Christian' since --- at their last convention --- the Southern Baptists formally declared that Christ was no longer the central figure in their belief, and that the Bible was. Fundamentalism and the Bible -- Larry Graham of All Saints Episcpal Church in Atlanta -- ...He holds the view that Fundamentalists have made the Bible their god, and thus have begun a new religion. ...But this new religion (Fundamentalism) has elevated the Bible to the status of an idol. It eschews reason, tradition and scholarship. For those it substitutes a requirement to accept Biblical "inerrancy" as interpreted by Fundamentalist leaders. These leaders cater to followers who are frightened by the changes that are now occuring rapidly in society. They oppose social change and are devoted to maintaining or strengthening our society's taboos as a way of fighting these changes. So they interpret the utterances of their god (the Bible) to support their reactionary position and require unquestioning acceptance of those interpretations. This is the kind of "blind faith" that makes cults very dangerous. In this way, they do not differ from Muslum fundamentalists or other groups that attempt to block the normal human progress that is reflected in social change. Ignorance and bigotry are always destructive forces. Theirs' is no different and will bring about the downfall of the very civilization they seek to protect if they are unopposed. members.aol.com Or this: There are over a million religious web sites on the Internet. Almost all promote a single viewpoint -- that of the webmaster. This web site is an exception. Our goal is religious education, not religious conversion. We try to explain the full diversity of Christian beliefs: from those held by very conservative to very liberal believers. Included also are the beliefs of the very early Christian movement from the 1st and 2nd century CE. Many of our visitors are distressed because they find the beliefs by other Christians to be in gross error, unacceptable and even blasphemous. Please do not write us angry E-mails, because you see beliefs other than your own explained here. However, if you find that we have incorrectly explained conservative or liberal Christian beliefs, please do inform us. religioustolerance.org

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