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To: Neocon who wrote (38383)	3/15/1999 1:52:00 AM
From: Johnathan C. Doe	Read Replies (1) of 67261

I'm not particularly knowledgable about all of these things. What is called "the Sinner's prayer or the Believer's prayer"; this is something I can say and have no problem saying it. But when it comes to many other specific parts of the Bible; verse by verse; I don't draw the same conclusions that are part of the Fundamentalist and Evangelical crowd. I sincerely and really deeply struggle with what the Bible is saying and what Christianity means and whether it is something that I feel good about. I right now find it a mess of conflicting things and I find it very disturbing to me at times. The fact that I stick with it while it bothers me so much is something of a mystery to all of my friends and loved ones. It is perplexing even to the minister I meet with on a weekly basis and to my Bible group and my prayer group. I don't feel comfortable with a secular life and yet I also don't feel comfortable with what I'm told the Bible is saying by others in this church. It just really disturbs me. At times; Christianity seems like a nightmare religion. It just depends who I am talking to. It seems that some people get caught up in warnings and threats and none of that makes me feel particularly comfortable with Christianity. Not that I think there aren't warnings, but the threats and what I call the scare tactics to get me to conform are truly disturbing and they repulse me. My minister is constantly trying to reach out to me after he hears I've been beaten up by someone else in the church; beaten over the head with the Bible. I don't know yet whether I'm just dealing with a good guy/bad guy effort to reduce me their will. None of that would impress me as Christian. Christ never did it that way.

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