From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!uw-june!palmer Newsgroups: net.religion Title: Re: Testing Christianity Article-I.D.: uw-june.340 Posted: Tue Mar 15 10:45:34 1983 Received: Tue Mar 22 20:38:39 1983 References: tektronix.1017 Bob Bales claims that his religion is the only one which has a living god. His attitude is "I know god is alive, I talked with him today." Balderdash There are many, many other religions with living gods. Up until a few years ago Jim Jones was running one, then all his followers ascended into heaven. (Is that any more ridiculous than the claims some Christians have made? I think not.) If you want to get in on the ground floor af a religion, there are plenty which let you talk to God, and in some of them, God even replies. As for myself, I will stick to omnideism (is that the right word for the doctrine that "everything is god"?) That way, whenever I'm talking, even to myself, I'm talking to God. David Palmer