Yes ... and the reason so many of them end up in hell anyway is that they really
don't believe what they're trying to sell to the rest of us.
Further, the reason Americans are so "popular" in the remainder of the world has
to do with the fact that they frequently travel about both as private
individuals and as representatives of our government, industry, or culture,
telling people elsewhere how WRONG their ancient cultural views of the world,
both physical and spiritual, are. The image outside the U.S. of those
Americans, extrapolated to represent ALL Americans, is that they lack the
humility to respect anyone else's culture, religion, history, etc. That
compresses into "they don't respect anyone else."
My suspicion is that many of those promoters of American-style religion, which
is clearly a business more than a belief system, don't really believe anything
specific, other than that they have to convince everyone around them that they
do. It's no secret, however, that if one preaches but doesn't act consistently
with what they preach, they're just a fake.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Ehrich" <gehrich_at_tampabay.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: absurdity
> At 07:04 PM 11/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >It could also be argued that there's something wrong with the idea of
> >believing in God purely to keep oneself out of hell
>
> Which is what most god believers do.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
>
> gene_at_ehrich.com
> gehrich_at_tampabay.rr.com
> P.O. Box 3365 Spring Hill Florida 34611-3365
>
> http://www.voicenet.com/~generic
> Computer & Video Game Garage Sale
>
>
>
>
>
>
Received on Sat Nov 10 2001 - 11:01:01 GMT