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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (29938)	9/27/2001 3:28:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

, just being cautious about my own further participation in this discussion I understand. You may recall I cautioned earlier about prying more out of people than they want to discuss. Greg may want to debate "truth" but I have no further interest in it. I think I've learned about all I can on that subject from this thread. I just hit the "next" button when posters argue about whether Christ rose from the dead or not. Or believe in the various points of the Apostles' Creed. My interest in the Christian boxes at this point in time is that I'm reevaluating my own personal tolerance of religion and religious people in light of the recent events. I always drew the line in my own tolerance scheme between those who wanted to impose their religion on other people and those who were content for others to find their own religion or lack of same. I thought that the worst damage religion could do in this country was for the fundies to get too much control of the government and try to turn us into a theocracy. Any religious people who weren't trying to do that were OK with me. I'm looking at a things a bit differently now that there's a physical threat, as well. So I'm in the process of adding another criterion to my tolerance scheme--those religious who live in the next world at the expense of this one. Any discussions you and Greg might have been having are extraneous to that. I'm sorry if my point of interest seemed to be colliding with yours. They were simply concurrent discussion items. I spent quite a bit of time a year or so ago trying to categorize Christians. The best info I could find on the Internet listed all the denominations but purposely didn't group them because there was too much variation from congregation to congregation, it said. The best I could do with groupings were fundamentalists, evangelicals, and everybody else. Neo was nice enough to break down the "everybody else" a bit for me, which I find very helpful. Karen