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Subject: Re: Don't reply to this Author: Jesse [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12:09:43 04/08/02 Mon In reply to: DramaQueen 's message, "Don't reply to this" on 10:31:05 04/07/02 Sun The God Squad, Christian Cowboys.... Those are but 2 names I used when I was in school for the "christians" who went to Butler. The same "christians" who told half the school I was a Satanist. Why? Because they thought I was because, and I quote, "well, you wear ALL black." Fuck religion and fuck god too! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Don't reply to this Author: nason [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:48:01 04/08/02 Mon Its funny... You assume that what has been taught to you is the truth. You don’t question that it is possible that the Christian teachings have been completely twisted over time. I watched something on TV awhile back about some scholars that set aside everything they had learned from religion and reinterpreted the bible.... Basically they came up with things like there is no hell... just you will be held accountable for what you do in life... Don’t worship Christ, for he is only the messenger, worship god... The other messengers (Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Abraham, Moses, Muhammad, The Bab, Baha'u'llah and future Messengers) are the same essence, link with god, holy ghost, etc as Christ... “The one and only” means there is only one essence, link with god, holy ghost, etc... But will the messenger will always hold a different title/name. Why are people so helpless not to search for the truth for themselves??? They had priests in the time of Christ because people were not educated enough to read for themselves. Are people today still that uneducated that they cannot read and think for themselves? They just blindly follow what others believe!?!?!

[> [> Subject: Re: Don't reply to this Author: wink [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:46:49 04/08/02 Mon the exact same can be said for the ba hai (sp) faith.

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Don't reply to this Author: nason [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:53:49 04/08/02 Mon Lee its funny you can say this with no intuition on what the beliefs are of the bahai faith, otherwise you might understand a little more about where I am comming from. Bahai's actually push independent investigation for the truth (dont follow blindly). Search the phrase "messanger of god" on any search engine and you will find tons of information on the Bahai faith, as well as going to http://www.bahai.org

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Don't reply to this Author: wink [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:21:33 04/08/02 Mon I think you'd be rather surprised what I know about the bahai faith. And nonetheless it's another monotheistic religion where you are expected to sacrafice your life here on earth for eternal bliss. Most people believe in what they were taught, you find something that works and instead of continuing to search, it ends there. That's exactly why you don't see many (in comparision) buddhists or many hindu's. No matter how much you trick yourself, how much searching have you really done? How much do you know about the following religions (note these are just the 6 most popular): Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism.....and the list would go on and on.

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Don't reply to this Author: nason [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:45:52 04/08/02 Mon Wink to be honest with you, I have been learning alot about the other religions because the bahais believe in all the other religions... they are all the same... there is only one religion, the religion of god.... the teachings from each messenger are the all the same if you study them.... but the laws each of them gave for their people to follow were different for their time period to suit scociety at the time... Eachone actually fortold the comming of the next. There will be more to come as well, the pattern seems to be every 1,000 years if you look at it on a time line. Im not done searching lee ;-) There is no way I can learn everything about this stuff... There is too much of it... But it can be quite interesting.

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Don't reply to this Author: wink [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:34:25 04/09/02 Tue As far as I know the bahais are the only one of the major religions that have had a prophet within the past 200 years (like 1864 or around there) and as he said, there would not be another for 1000 years. I'd say society has changed enough in the past 150 years to warrant a new prophet. I demand a new prophet goddamnit :D.