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To: PROLIFE who wrote (27719)	10/11/1999 3:04:00 PM
From: mark silvers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Dan, You are being too flippant. Just because someone chooses to believe outside of Christianity, it doesn't mean that they are making hasty, casual choices, or even making a "trendy" choice. Many people put immense amounts of time, effort, and thought into these choices. Some choose Christianity, some choose other organized religions, some make choices that are less mainstream. some even choose to not believe anything. Regardless of the choice, most are hardly casual. MY guess is that there are more casual believers of organized religion than anything else. Many people are a certain religion because of nothing more than familial history or just a lack of motivation to change. to make an intentional decision to go outside of the mainstream, requires thought and intention. It requires a premeditated action with the foreknowledge that many within the mainstream will look sideways at the decision, and that some will be purely antagonistic. The easier choice is to go with the cultural flow. Many people who make these decisions, do so with anything but a casual mindframe. Mark

To: PROLIFE who wrote (27719)	10/11/1999 4:20:00 PM
From: Sam Ferguson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

All believers in God accept it is not an objective reality. Our impressions of God come from within. These images are then transferred by the individual into objective images. These images may assume audible qualities as words, or visual or tactile forms. These then constitute the persoanl d will concede that such an idea is a supernatural phenomena; idea of God which that individual has experienced. The image that God assumes in the mind of an individual is also greatly influenced by the religious training and reading of the person.Most primitive concepts are of an anthropomorphic God, that is, man and the Gods had the somewhat similar form. Usually to show the supremecy he was made to have heroic proportions. It is most difficult for some religionists to conceive a consciousness or mind that is without form or substance. The fact there is no universal conception of God is confirmed by the several traditional concepts held by many. The most prominent are animism, anthorpomorphism, deism, pantheism, and polytheism. Remember we can only identify by our own conception which originates inwardly. In one sense man is ever recreating his image of God and as he progresses in life, learns, and develops he may recreate his God from perhaps the childhood concept he had. Nevertheless this new God is neither greater or lesser than the prior image, just different. God to man is not static nor inert, but is dynamically constantly changing in his image, in the ideas which man has of him. What you don't realize Dan is no matter how you try to make others see your image of God and your concepts of the bible we each have our own ideas and you force yours on others without creating hostilility. Tolerance is one quality most Christians preach but never practise. You and your snide remarks about others just shows how small you are.