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To: Ilaine who wrote (9689)	9/17/2001 11:01:58 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The Catholics and most Protestants and Orthodox Christians are Trinitarians, they believe that there are three parts of God, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spririt or Holy Ghost. I know about these disputes, but as you say above as the three major strands believe in this trinity approach, I can take that as the mainstream Chritian belief. I've talked with the Mormon missionaries here, and while they have a lot of bizarre beliefs their view of Jesus as prophet (as in Islam) make sa whole lot more sense to me. To tell you the truth, I don't think God really cares whether we are Christian, Jew, or Muslim. I don't think God cares about foreskins and seething kids in their mother's milk and Temples and whether you eat pigs or cows or shellfish, and if anyone asked God, the idea of an infallible human being is a bit of a giggle. BWDIK? These are the parts of the Islam and Judaism which are most inexplicable to Christians. The enlightened view would be that they are practices which help people reach a path of holiness - as Buddhists and Hindus also do similar practices for those goals. On the other hand, at least in theory Jewish courts could enact very stiff penalties on people who disobeyed the Sabbath for example. They saw no real differences between these laws between God and Man and the laws between people like murder etc. Maimonedes for one explains many of the laws as ways to differentiate the Jews from their neighbors so that they could be a single holy people. I guess other peoples also have stiff penalties on taboo-breakers. The taboos vary but their purposes seem similar.