<html> <body> 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: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>On 22-mrt-04, at 1:05, Dean May wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>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 big Ten and the Golden Rule. Dean Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN  47802 </blockquote> The Bible is a book, written by religious people for religious people, 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, must be, converted otherwise they, the non-believers, go to hell. A religious experience, a mystical experience, is a very personal and private matter. It is understandable that somebody who has had a deeply religious or deeply mystical experience very much wants to share his or her exaltation. Unfortunately, the people who are so deeply religious, do not want to get it through their religious skulls that there is a vast group of other inhabitants of this planet who can not , do not, and shall not share the same religious or mystical experience.  (Maybe so called non-believers 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 that there are others with a different opinion, but the irritating truth often is that they do not want to let others have a free and un-hindered life, a life in which they can have their own experiences and and there own developments, without the egotistical wish from believers to proselytize and forcefully convert innocent beings. Again I say, read our history books and you will come to the conclusion that most wars were fought because of religious intolerance. Look at the Roman games where the early Christians were murdered by Romans who did not share their vision, look at the endless torture and prosecution of the inquisition in the middle ages, the invasion of the moors in Spain, the crusades into the 'holy land', the endless wars between the protestants and the catholics, the hateful murders committed 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 tolerant towards all kinds of political movements, to all kinds of religious groups. All I want is peace and happiness for my fellow humans, and all I expect is the same tolerance towards the fact that I may be of a different opinion. So please, do not choose this email forum as your religious platform and try to understand that your personal religious experience should be shared not on this list but among your own co-believers, just out of respect for people who might think otherwise. Thank you for your tolerance, OK? André Oorebeek Amsterdam - The Netherlands 0031-20-6237357 0645-492389 0031-75-6226878 <a href="http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/" eudora="autourl">www.concer= tpianoservice.nl</a> <a href="http://www.grandpiano.nl/" eudora="autourl">www.grandpiano.nl</= a> "where music is, no harm can be" </blockquote></x-html> </blockquote></body> </html>