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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

Re: Wiccan Rede; "An' it harm none, do what thou wilt"

[ruhe.livejournal.com]

I suspect that you're right. I think that "religion" as a form is something that is socially constructed to allow people words and actions to explore the Truth. In other words, I _am_ a Christian - but I don't see myself as a "practioner" of religion. Religion and religious practice sometimes gets in the way of the real thing.

I also find the idea that simply because one particular faith says that "other faiths are ok too - but faiths that don't make that claim are bad" is any less absolutist than one that says all other faiths are wrong. The logic the two arguments employ are identical - they simply come to slightly different conclusions.

Incidently, the early Christian theologian St. Augustine believed that all people had access to a piece of the good/word/truth - because by definition God had to be that great - but only true practicers of christianity (and I don't believe that he would extend this definition to all people who call themselves Christian) had the whole truth.