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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41629)	6/23/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Thanks, LRR, for a very fair and thoughtful posting that I'd say reflects many of the believers on this thread as well as in the 3D world.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41629)	6/23/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I'd go even further than you, Lather. Most of the believers I have known don't know, and don't care, what the particular church/temple/mosque they belong to actually teaches. They believe what they want to believe, not what anyone else tells them to believe. They attend services because they feel more in touch with "The Divine" there, not because they buy into (or even listen to!) what "the divine" (i.e., the preacher/priest/rabbi/mullah) is saying about "The Divine." Back in the 1950's, there was a major sociological study done of "believers," i.e., of people who attended divine services at least once a month. These folks were tested for their "religious knowledge" --and they flunked! Most could not identify a single prophet (the Jews did a little better), or explain a single doctrine (e.g., Virgin Birth, Original Sin, etc.). The testers were absolutely horrified. I personally was amused and gratified. Many of these good people would have been forced to leave their churches, if they had really understood what doctrines those churces officially held. (Predestination, for example: ugh! But how many Presbyterians today subscribe to that doctrine?) As it was, they could still go to church, meet their friends, and enjoy themselves. Joan

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41629)	6/23/1999 3:46:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Something for Lather to put on his Profile page? >>>>>No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.<<<<< - Thomas Jefferson

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41629)	6/23/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

Some legal "humor" and some nice things about lawyers, too, but the nice stuff was written by lawyers. Any profession that suffers from so foul a reputation must, in some way, provoke it. - Alan Dershowitz And He said, "Woe unto you also ye lawyers, for ye lade men with burdens to grevious to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burden with one of your fingers. Luke 11:46 (King James) Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. Luke 11:52 (King James) Satan was being expelled from Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought, turned to God and said, I hear a new creature called Man is soon to be created. This is true, God replied. He will need laws, said the Demon slyly, prompting God to indignantly exclaim, What! You, his appointed Enemy for all Time! You ask for the right to make his laws? Oh, no! Satan replied, I ask only that he be allowed to make his own. It was so granted. - Ambrose Bierce The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. - Justice W.O. Douglas It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - M.L. King Jr Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser in fees, expenses and waste of time. - Lincoln