Peace (OT)

[Avery Todd]

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THANK YOU, ANDRE! There's no way I could have said it better! I
totally agree with you! And I'm a Southern Baptist preachers'
daughters' son! :-) I wish they would ALL take that kind of "stuff"
(polite term) off this list!!!!!!! It's so TOTALLY inappropriate
here!

Avery

At 01:38 PM 3/22/04, you wrote:

>On 22-mrt-04, at 1:05, Dean May wrote:
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>>They will eventually.
>>
>>The Bible is the most authoritative and widely used source book in human
>>history. Much more reliable than most of the opinions you seem to prefer.
>>
>>Imagine what society would be like if everyone regulated his life by the=
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>>Ten and the Golden Rule.
>>
>>Dean
>>
>>Dean May             cell 812.239.3359
>>PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272
>>Terre Haute IN  47802
>
>The Bible is a book, written by religious people for religious people,=20
>people who believe  in a deity and a heaven and a hell or what ever.
>These same religious people also believe that non-believers should be, no,=
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>must be, converted otherwise they, the non-believers, go to hell.
>A religious experience, a mystical experience, is a very personal and=20
>private matter. It is understandable that somebody who has had a deeply=20
>religious or deeply mystical experience very much wants to share his or=20
>her exaltation.
>Unfortunately, the people who are so deeply religious, do not want to get=
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>it through their religious skulls that there is a vast group of other=20
>inhabitants of this planet who can not , do not, and shall not share the=20
>same religious or mystical experience.  (Maybe so called non-believers=20
>will have there own mystical moment in time, but that is another matter)
>These same religious people are not dumb or stupid, so they do understand=
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>that there are others with a different opinion, but the irritating truth=20
>often is that they do not want to let others have a free and un-hindered=20
>life, a life in which they can have their own experiences and and there=20
>own developments, without the egotistical wish from believers to=20
>proselytize and forcefully convert innocent beings.
>Again I say, read our history books and you will come to the conclusion=20
>that most wars were fought because of religious intolerance.
>Look at the Roman games where the early Christians were murdered by Romans=
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>who did not share their vision, look at the endless torture and=20
>prosecution of the inquisition in the middle ages, the invasion of the=20
>moors in Spain, the crusades into the 'holy land', the endless wars=20
>between the protestants and the catholics, the hateful murders committed=20
>by totally INtolerant muslims who want to just erase every non-muslim.
>I live in a so called tolerant country and I wish to be tolerant. I am=20
>tolerant towards all kinds of political movements, to all kinds of=20
>religious groups. All I want is peace and happiness for my fellow humans,=
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>and all I expect is the same tolerance towards the fact that I may be of a=
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>different opinion.
>So please, do not choose this email forum as your religious platform and=20
>try to understand that your personal religious experience should be shared=
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>not on this list but among your own co-believers, just out of respect for=
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>people who might think otherwise.
>Thank you for your tolerance, OK?
>
>
>
>Andr=E9 Oorebeek
>
>Amsterdam -
>The Netherlands
>
>0031-20-6237357
>0645-492389
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>
>"where music is, no harm can be"
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