17th March 2003, 1:15 AM
Well, actually I was pointing to answers to your questions in that last paragraph, well only one question :D.
Just to clarify, and I won't go beyond that (I really kinda feel guilty about just this much), above I made a distinct seperation between Catholosism and Christianity. Essentially I made that seperation due to the core beliefs of Christianity being essentially destroyed in that religion. My point being that your question about the Catholic stuff about playing to get into Heaven (and every other thing said about Catholosism) is about as topical as asking about Hinduism.
And to make it clear, many followers don't follow his teachings, because we all are lacking. The idea is that all we are doing is following Him, wanting to emulate Him, though we will of course fail. After all, if we were perfect, we wouldn't need to have a savior.
That's all I'll say. I think I cleared up any confusion you may have had. Any debating or anything beyond that I think would be kinda an insult to us both, as LL said. I make my point, you can choose to believe it or not, and as LL said (though you may not have gotten that far into his post), we don't mean to insult you. You and I are EXACTLY THE SAME, and I am no better than you at all.
Just to clarify, and I won't go beyond that (I really kinda feel guilty about just this much), above I made a distinct seperation between Catholosism and Christianity. Essentially I made that seperation due to the core beliefs of Christianity being essentially destroyed in that religion. My point being that your question about the Catholic stuff about playing to get into Heaven (and every other thing said about Catholosism) is about as topical as asking about Hinduism.
And to make it clear, many followers don't follow his teachings, because we all are lacking. The idea is that all we are doing is following Him, wanting to emulate Him, though we will of course fail. After all, if we were perfect, we wouldn't need to have a savior.
That's all I'll say. I think I cleared up any confusion you may have had. Any debating or anything beyond that I think would be kinda an insult to us both, as LL said. I make my point, you can choose to believe it or not, and as LL said (though you may not have gotten that far into his post), we don't mean to insult you. You and I are EXACTLY THE SAME, and I am no better than you at all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)