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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (17142)	4/19/2004 4:25:54 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 28931

This has little to do with your intolerance, but obviously what Constantine did 300 yrs after Jesus resurrection has no bearing on the factual basis of Christianity I can only repeat it once again : <<The truth is Greg , the early Christians were quite intolerant..... They believed as you do , that their God was the only God and that their Savior was the only savior. "Except through me you shall not see my Father," as they believed Jesus had said. More than that, they also believed that Jesus had commanded them to spread the faith by converting others. As a consequence, Christians were not willing to let others follow their own faiths, but condemned the beliefs of others and tried to convert them to their own belief.>> The early Christians were extreme bigots, filled with zeal and commanded to evangelize; expansion and domination was built into Christianity. But the other truth remains , that for many others on this planet , they have their own God , their own Buddhas , their own Saints , their own Philosophies ...their own messiahs and wise men and "Christs"..their own guiding lights just as you . I have seen tolerance manifest any many forms , and intolerance as well..and to my thinking there is only one religion that has maintained a better record than others for exhibiting true tolerance...if history would be the true judge of things. There is room for all , or should be , if tolerance and acceptance were really a true thing.