From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New Hate-Mongering Chick Tract is out Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:27:48 -0500
At 02:55 PM 5/18/04, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New Hate-Mongering Chick Tract is out Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:29:07 -0700
Travis Edmunds wrote:
This is funny. Yes, it is decidedly unchristian to give much thought to people who *sin*, or to people of other religions (meaning that every religion is THE religion) going to Hell, Hades, the 'fiery deeps', or whatever you want to call it. Although...on second thought I will call it Hell as we are after all talking about Christianity. Anyway, my point is this - the actual belief that sinners and everyone else who for whatever reason cannot make it into Heaven (supposedly most go to Purgatory) is a key part of Christian dogma.
No, that's a part of church-ianity dogma.
First of all Nick, allow me to state for the record that I don't buy into your "distinctions among religion, church and faith" bit. For if those distinctions do indeed exist, then they can serve only to disparage any one facet of the other. I mean, what is Faith without a Church to profess it? What is a Church without a Religion as a foundation? What is a Religion without people to have Faith? I tell you sir, they are as intertwined as you are with oxygen.
So are you saying that the only way one can have faith in God is to be a member of an organized religion and to be a "card-carrying" active member of a particular church?
Nope.
-Travis
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