To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (16361 ) 12/2/2002 8:43:18 PM From: d:oug Respond to of 81187 [no] religion [nobody] considers themselves answerable . Alan, . Hard for those like me that gather evidence of evil and discover that while each religion has a doctrine of right & wrong, good & bad, correct & incorrect behavior that translates into a sin or not towards their religion, with consequence at the day of reckoning when one leaves this life on Earth and enters the afterlife described in detail by their religion in a manner that one will enter a promised land of good only if they adhere and obey the teachings, else they will either be punished or obtain another ungood fate. . Now being myself a Catholic by birth, it was explained to me that each time i confessed my sins, i obtained a pure state of having no sins and would be received into heaven at the time. I do admit that while i became over-sexxed at whatever age a young boy of age about when they collected girly magazines and in the secret room called bathroom they pounded their pud about 3 times a day driven by them dna genes thoughts passed down from the beginning of mankind time to created more people, that each time i told the priest that its been one month since my last confession and i "touched myself"(30x3) 90 times, i asked for forgivness not because i felt shame or evil, but that knowing as i walked back home and died that unless i felt fear and asked for these sins to be erased, that if i died i go to hell. . So yes, i always tried to pud # 3 before confession so that i could remain sin'less until the next day started :o) rather than the same day upon returning to that locked bathroom not needing a pee or dump but to spread them thousands of sperm cells dictated by nature. . So i wonder not because it has not been listed many times, but world wide i think catholic is not the most held religion, so it seems that whatever is held by most people should be recognized as the religion set forth by a God and thusly all other religions should be dumped so that only one God exist in the minds of all mankind. . Or, if catholic is not the most believed in, but is the real one, then i guess all those other people believe in a false God, and that is a sin i believe(yes?) so it stands to reason that until catholic is held world-wide these other people of religion not catholic are sinnners doomed to hell.. . ok, Guess its to be decided by the one and only real God on how this is played out, but then its played out based on how the people of religion carry out their teachings, and so whatever teaching catholics are instructed to put forth, in a catholics view, is the way all of mankind will be saved, or if not, only believers. . ok, Please tell us your God (religion) and instructions. . I do admit that it may not be clear that way, a plan or blurprint, but like a puzzle or set of commands, its each person to find themselves the correct God and thusly save themselves. doug