Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Proselytizing on the Net Message-ID: <579@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 15:26:42 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxa.579 Posted: Fri Feb 24 15:26:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 08:12:30 EST Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 40 Please, Mr. Davis, if you want to proselytize, go out and find a nice street corner and set up shop. As you will note from reading the Articles in this news group, everyone has his or her opinion regarding religion. I have never seen an opinion changed or a stand reversed because of the type of submission you have posted. Most of the arguments amount to "how many angels can sit on the head of a pin?" type. The discussions are interesting, with the different sides defending their positions with great outpourings of deathless prose. Just be content to read them, but don't go telling anyone they are going to roast in some mythical oven. Many, and some quite religeous, netters just do not believe that that scenario is true. The arguments have been, if you wish to join in: a. God is dead b. God is mean and nasty c. God is good d. There is no god e. Who needs god f. Morality has nothing to do with god g. God is everything h. God is an abstract whatever i. God is real j. My god is nicer than your god k. Religion is the opiate of the masses l. Gods I have never met and so on....... No one is telling anyone else that they are going to go to hell in a handbasket if they don't believe the same way. Save the fire and brimestone for the street corner or tent meeting. Jump into the fray at any point, but remember, you ain't gonna change any minds out there. It is best to present what you believe then stand back and be ready to defend your position from all sides. It may sound sometimes as if people are attacking your beliefs. It is most likely not so, they are just defending their own positions. We all have our hobbyhorses to ride. T. C. Wheeler