To: Johnathan C. Doe who wrote (38593 ) 3/16/1999 2:29:00 PM From: one_less Respond to of 67261
bs DOE. You are afraid. You walk on egg shells around any PC stuff. You hope to be "Mr. Cool" among your constituency. Clearly you have sold out to the intimidation by the lets not judge, lets not have standards, tolerate other peoples "choices" song and dance. The truth is very, very, very, very simple. Now you can put on all kinds of robes and entertain all kinds of ceremony to make it as obscure and mysterious as you want. You are a Christian, I am not. But I fully endorse the teachings of Jesus. He reduced the truth to the Golden Rule. One sentence. Dealing with this truth and struggling with the tests of living in that truth until judgement day is truly more complicated than I can imagine. Without Gods mercy, I would have no hope. However, because I do believe God is all powerful and merciful, I am filled with hope. Yes, you are afraid of the truth. God commands you to accept no other before him. He has sent his truth to you through his messengers. It is confirmable in your own heart. It is your soul that you are responsible for. To tell yourself or me that the truth is too sophisticated for simple human beings to grasp is at the cost of your soul and presenting barriers to other people to take responsibility for their soul and its condition. You are kissing it off as the Popes business or something. You come off as a Bible scholar who doesn't have a clue to who your God is. When you preach from that perspective you come off as a clown. You want to endorse and encourage, assault, rape, lying, cheating, and corruption by the powerful and elite. Fine. I don't believe it is because your are a tolerant and forgiving worshipper of God. Tolerance and forgiveness has been commanded to us for the people who are struggling for the sake of righteousness, not so we can kiss butt to the powers that be.