[stylist] Looking for ideas on good children's books- LeftBehind

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

Sem,

You make an incredibly great point. I say this only from a scholastic view,
but most Christian groups, as well as Muslim, to be fair, believe their
religion to be the only true one. No other religion before or after is true,
and any God other than their's is a false one. So that's why these religions
can discredit every other religion. This is a tenant of these faiths. I do
not say this with any tone or attitude or agenda, simply stating facts,
nothing more or less.

Personally, I enjoy learning about religions and having intelligent debates
on religion, but it's very difficult to leave emotions out of religious
discussions for most, and I totally get that. When you have convictions
about something, typically it's rooted deep within you, and it's natural to
want to defend. And while I think it's good to keep an open mind and be
willing to hear and consider a different view, it's also okay to believe
what you believe and stay true to yourself.

In many ways, this discussion is similar to what many of us feel and believe
about Federation philosophy. Most us Federationist have been questioned,
debated and accused for our progressive position on blindness. "Knowing"
what we know and believing what we believe, we don't understand how people
can see it any other way. Many a hot debate has happened over blindness
philosophy. In fact, it's a big disagreement causing a great schism between
the two major blindness organizations.

Bridgit

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LeftBehind

I don't mean to offend anyone, but this is on the topic of something in the
rhetoric being only around 100 years old and as such being considered more
BS or invalid compared to the older biblical texts. But just for fun, why
not consider that Christianity in general is a new baby religion on the face
of all the years/centuries and such, thousands of years before of other
older religions. Yet it was still considered, in all it's fresh faced
babyhood to be the only valid religion, ignoring all the thousands of years
before it with a casually dismissive wave of the hand as it were. So
considering that, what's the difference?
I am not debating religion. Merely logic in a scholarly historical sort of
way.
Sem
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
I get along with the voices inside of my head. 


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