Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Hua, "why should YOU believe..." Message-ID: <1401@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:21:43 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1401 Posted: Fri Mar 1 10:21:43 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:04:15 EST References: <561@decwrl.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 27 [] >I believe in God because he answers prayers. I have seen personally and >read about many others of SPECIFIC answers to needs prayed about with no >objective reason to expect any answer without "intervention". I quit believing in "God" because he didn't answer prayers, nor did I sense any sort of communication taking place. > I have had >to learn patience (answers are not normally instantaneous) and reasonableness I never got *any* answers, regardless of the request. >(if you ask your father for a rock, isn't even a human father going to give >bread?). That depends on whether you're eating supper or building a wall. :-) > Rick Merrill -- The above viewpoints are mine. They are unrelated to those of anyone else, including my cats and my employer. Ken Montgomery "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs" ...!{ihnp4,allegra,seismo!ut-sally}!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ut-ngp.ARPA [for Arpanauts only]