Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Those who represent christianity Message-ID: <397@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 21:04:16 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.397 Posted: Thu Oct 18 21:04:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 06:54:42 EDT References: <3947@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 22 David Dyer-Bennet's article really upset me, not because I disagree with him (unfortunately, I understand all too well), but because It really bothers me that people like Brunson are being taken as THE representatives of christendom. And now, a visit from our friendly neighborhood pillar of fire: I suppose organized christianity has earned a lot the abuse it has taken, what with the generally high level of hypocrisy we all see. I don't like it any better than the next man. All this condemning people to hell, though, is TOTALLY UNCHRISTIAN. Isn't that exactly what Jesus warned against when he said "Judge not, lest ye be judged?" Let God condemn people. Now I am not saying you shouldn't try to convince them of their error; but be civil. There is absolutely no reason why we should fill net.motss with rubbish about how "all the homos are going to burn in Hell;" I'm sure they've already been told that, and haranging them just serves to chase them away. Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe "Remember Saint Cuthbert!"