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Date Posted: 12:23:27 02/27/02 Wed
Author: Adilbrand
Subject: I have a question, too.
In reply to: Omega 's message, "Another tough question, with only brief thoughts" on 14:40:58 02/26/02 Tue

Sorry to butt in, but all of this you are saying about religion sounds good. Sounds wonderful, actually. But somehow I don't think your average Christian on the street gets all of this out of religion. I certainly didn't. All I got was a sense that I wasn't good enough, and only by bribing God with a blood sacrifice would I be able to get by. Certainly no church I have ever been to has explored religion this interestingly before. Why isn't this view of religion taught in most Christian churches?

"This leads to ideas that suggest we are, in some ways now, not even to the perfection of our potential -- that is really what original sin itself is about --it isn't necessarily about the idea of some "sin" that passes down and which makes us evil, as much as that our original or perfected nature needs to be re-obtained, and what causes tragedy or suffering in life, needs to be removed."

I like this a lot better than the concept of original sin I was taught.

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It is a good notion -- mvd, 12:34:00 02/27/02 Wed
There are many reasons -- Omega, 13:29:06 03/02/02 Sat