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Dk said: It's not about one faith being right for everyone. It's about one faith being right for us.
I disagree! It IS about being one faith FOR EVERYONE! What about the whiping out of the pagan tribes in the Promised Land?? Especially when God instructed Joshua to annilate....
There's nothing wrong with your religion being the one faith for everyone until you start taking away peoples' rights to decide for their damn selves. I really have a hard time thinking that such a great god is gonna command his followers to annihilate ANY of his other people that he created. He would want them saved. Not killed. And I think that, according to what I remember from previous instruction, part of the reason the religion isn't the one religion for everyone is because we have a choice and sometimes the christian choice seems silly. Spiritual growth is, IMO, the important thing, not who's face is stamped on your prayer. Seeing as how people in different - and even identical - cultures have such different minds, beliefs, traditions, paramounts, ideas, etc, I find it hard to buy that one religion could possibly satisfy everyone's faith needs. Nature and nurture make everyone different and clearly one god doesn't suffice for the world of individuals.
Old men, fear me! You will shatter under my ruthless apathetic assault!
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"I am convinced that this world is of no importance, and that the only people who care about dates are imbeciles and Spanish teachers." -- Jean Arp, 1921
"If Jesus came back and saw what people are doing in his name, he would never never stop throwing up." - Max von Sydow, "Hannah and Her Sisters"
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