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- From: ts2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Omar Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
- Message-ID: <UeQsWIW00VpOR531sx@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 21:24:36 GMT
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- Organization: Senior, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- >Thats assuming of course that *a* God can be patronized. I don't know about
- >the other religions you mentioned but in the Christian religion it is God
- >who does the choosing.
-
- That's only those sects that believe in predestination. Other groups
- believe that salvation comes from faith, which is a choice by man.
-
- Which leads to an interesting point. If you're predestined, then why be
- good. You're already guaranteed salvation. If you're not predestined,
- then you have nothing to lose by being bad. Hmmmm.
-
- Which leads to this interesting story. A friend told me this one, and I
- laughed for a while. Seems a friend of his worked in a local store.
- One day, a Jehovah's witness was preaching to people in the store. This
- particular worker was a rather clever fellow, and the conversation ran
- thusly,
-
- "According to your religion, only a Jehovah's witness can be saved"
- "Yes, that is our teaching".
- "And according to the Bible, only 144,000 people are to be saved"
- "Yes, this is also according to our teachings".
- "But, there are 2,000,000 Jehovah's witnesses."
-
- The preaching person went into emotional shock for hours.
-
- Tom the non hacker
- Kemp in 96!
- "If patriotism is the last refuge
- of scoundrels, Then environmentalism
- is the current refuge of totalitarians."
- Bob Jackson
-