I am deleting, unread, all posts with this title because nobody is saying anything new. Everybody has their minds made up and all the force of their deepest values behind it.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ ______________________________ "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual.The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."--William James >From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <brin-l@mccmedia.com> >To: Killer Bs Discussion <brin-l@mccmedia.com> >Subject: Re: Religion is Valuable: Why it Must Be Encouraged >Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:32:57 +0100 > > >On 29 Jul 2007, at 13:55, Richard Baker wrote: > > > William said: > > > >> It has a supernatural God that makes the world, a supernatural Jesus, > >> it has Jesus coming back from death, it has heaven and it has > >> resurrection and blah blah blah. If you don't believe all of this > >> tosh you are not a Christian. > > > > I think it's possible to disbelieve some aspects of it while > > believing other things of a similar character and still be a > > Christian. For example, the Nicene Creed was a formal rejection of > > Arianism(*) - that's what the "eternally begotten of the Father... > > begotten, not made" part is about - but I don't think anyone could > > sensibly argue that Arians aren't Christians, and the First Council > > of Nicaea certainly didn't stamp out what was afterwards the "Arian > > heresy". > >Which cults are or are not really Christian is one of those religious >questions... > >The Latter Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses represent themselves as >Christian but reject the Nicene Creed. Some Protestant churches claim >Catholics aren't really Christians and the Pope has recently >reaffirmed that the Catholic church is the One True Christian church. > >Zealots Maru > >-- >William T Goodall >Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk >Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ > >'The true sausage buff will sooner or later want his own meat >grinder.' -- Jack Schmidling > > >_______________________________________________ >http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
