laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (11/05/83)
ssc-vax!guest didn't strike me as the one of the net addresses most likely to have a return address, so I am posting this here. This is a flame. People who don't like flames can stop reading now. WOULD ALL CHRISTIANS TEMPTED TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT IS RIGHT OR WRONG WITH THEIR CURRENT SEXUAL PRACTICES AND BELIEFS PLEASE GO BACK AND READ PAUL TO THE ROMANS. Right. Now, consider this: Salvation is a gift bestowed by God onto people. You can't deserve it. You can't force God to save you by your good behavior. This is not the Green Stamps model of Salvation, folks. What good behaviour is is a response to that Grace God gives you. OKAY. CHEW ON THAT FOR A BIT. Now, consider this. There are those of us out here who ARE NOT and NEVER WILL BE Christians. Some of us have OTHER GODS, and some have NO GOD, but we sure don't think that we have the saving Grace of YOUR GOD. There are other people here who really think that Christianity should allow a sexual, or even homosexual response to God. These people may be wrong, but considering all the things that divide Christians today, it is going to be hard to figure this out. Do you think that you might decide on things like "whether the Charismatics are all posessed and damned" and "will Luther be damned" and "will all the people who live in Ireland be damned" first? they are a lot more accessible than Paul, who might have different things to say if he lived in 1983. If you still want to rant and rave, how about considering whether frightening people into submission out of a mistaken idea of what Christianity is all about (the Green Stamp model I mentioned) is an appropriate response to your God. AND MOVE TO NET.RELIGION BECAUSE YOU REALLY DO HAVE A THEOLOGICAL PROBLEM WHICH NEEDN'T CONCERN ALL THE READERS HERE. IF YOU THINK THAT HOMOSEXUALS DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CONSIDER THEM DAMNED THEN YOU DON'T KNOW VERY MANY HOMOSEXUALS. So your message can hardly be useful. Rant in net.flame or net.religion if it makes you feel better. Laura Creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura ps -- don't bother telling me that I am damned for writing this. I am 900 times damned already, this doesn't count for beans. If your God really runs the shoe and would damn me for writing this, He will have much better reasons for damning me. Mostly that I hate his guts. I treat stray insects that fly into my house better than you would have him treat me.