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[chess]

I think that I might have given some people here some wrong impressions in the past. So, I'd just like to clear a few things up.
1. I am a Christian.
2. This means that I believe in one God, who expresses Himself as a Trinity of people - God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
3. This also means that I believe all other gods/godesses/deities-of-any-description are fakes, invented by humans or by Satan to trap people and keep them away from God.
4. In addition, I believe that everyone who isn't a Christian is going to Hell.
5. Understandably, I would really rather all you people didn't go to Hell. Hence, I'm praying for you. And I'm going to keep praying for you. Even if you ask me not to.

So, there we go.

Comments

[steaksammich.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough on the topic to debate it intelligently. I've always thought religion to be the most ridiculously silly thing so I never bothered learning much about it. But I figured I should say something about it, just for fun. 1, 2, and 5 I'm ok with. Even number 4 isn't so bad I suppose. But number three is one of the reasons why I believe religion to be so silly. What makes you think that you're right and the millions of Buddists and Hindus and other such people are wrong? Perhaps you're the one worshipping the false god?

I dunno, my mind has always been too logical and scientific to blindly put faith into something so far fetched that doesn't have an once of proof behind it. I never understood how people could do that...

But with all the wars religion has created and all dirty politics behind it, I'm quite glad I wasn't raised Christian. Religion is one of the more evil things in the world. Not to mention the people that run it...This is probably world news since the pope is involved now, but I'm not sure how big it is in England. But here in America, lately, there have been a very large number of people all over the place coming forward and saying how their priests and nuns used to molest them as children. It'd be a toss up betweeen if I'd rather be led by Hitler and his generals or the Pope and his priests.

I spose in your version of the world I'll be going to hell and if there was a god, I definately would be. I'm not really worried about it though.

[chess]

I do get sick of it when people condemn Christianity because of the abuses conducted in its name - especially as the abuses so blatently contradict the central tenets of the faith itself!

Surely if you're going to pick a religion to twist to your own ends, you'd choose the one that seemed most right, because then you'd be more convincing?

My mind is also logical and scientific. But I can see how it'd be hard to believe if you hadn't had the experiences that kinda move the proof up a notch for me. It'd be kinda illogical and stupid for me *not* to believe in a God, given the number of 'coincidences' I'd have to believe in instead. But although I haven't independantly investigated this, I'm told that the historical evidence for the Bible being pretty accurate is good - better than some of the other history we take for granted.