Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller]) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Christian singles Message-ID: <2005@nsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 23:14:58 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2005 Posted: Mon Dec 10 23:14:58 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 07:37:05 EST References: <189@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui[The Time Traveller]) Organization: Callahans Lines: 38 Summary: > > I'm sorry to see that Chuq, who has always appeared reasonable to me, >equates all Christians and their beliefs with Jeff. I, too, am a Christian. >I was brought up in a Christian home, where we read the Bible every night. I >would venture that I am probably as devout as is Jeff, yet I rarely agree >with most of what he has to say. That was not my implication at all-- if people took it as such, my apologies. Jeffs version of Christianity, is, in many ways, unique. Which is not to say wrong, of course... The problem I see is that there are a number of people out there who are Christians (or at least claim to be) who seem to feel that anything that is not Christian (as defined by them) is either wrong, evil, or both. This also tends to be true in net.religion, and the results (constant turf wars between the hardline christians (as I'll call them) and the rest of humanity) are plain to see. I'd like to avoid similar dogmatic fights in net.singles as much as possible because they don't generate any positive results for anyone. My basic wish is for tolerance-- the christians need to realize that just because some of us follow another path that we aren't wrong or less than them, just different. From what I've seen the non-Christians tend to be very tolerant of letting the Christians follow their faith without accusatory comments; unfortunately there is a small but vocal contingent of the hardline christians that won't allow the rest of the net the same priviledge, and that is what I want to see left out of net.singles. We are here to discuss, not convert. chuq (sigh) -- From behind the bar at Callahan's: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA You know, the little man has a point. Been a lot goin' on lately.