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To: epicure who wrote (94872)	11/8/2008 6:20:42 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543776

I always thought it was terribly ironic that a country founded specifically on the rejection of monarchical control, is one of the strongest devotees of a religion which worships a deity who basically rules like a king, handing down dictates that all subjects must follow without question. And very few people seem to see the irony or the contradiction.

To: epicure who wrote (94872)	11/8/2008 9:55:15 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 543776

The problem is that "The Religious" aren't running around with a consistent set of principles that actually work for anyone using them. They can't even agree they are Christian when they believe in Christ. Ask a Baptist if an LDS is Christian and they say "No!". For the rest of us, we want a logical set of principles that are reasonable, measurable, consistent, rational, justified, uniform, secular, and minimal. If only I were Saved, if only I had faith, if only I had the instruction manual for my remote control... The people with the blinking 12:00 on their DVD can pray till the cows come home but God is not going to fix it. A Google search for the model of the player will. But only if they read the manual and not the Bible.