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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
I'm not religious, but I can respect the fact that other people are.
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I'm sorry, but I've got to be honest -- as a religious person, I don't feel very respected when I read things like this:
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I think the truly amazing thing to me is that people can question the genius of some of the greatest minds of our time; they can read a newspaper article, and they can roll their eyes; they can see a huge hole in the side of the Pentagon and deny that a plane ever hit it; but they can read a book, written thousands of years ago, which at times, talks of things that don't even seem possible or plausible, and they believe that that is the word of the world, and all who don't follow that word are destined to go to hell.
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I don't know who is denying that a plane hit the Pentegon (or what that has to do with religious beliefs) or what newspaper articles you're talking about (though I've certainly rolled my eyes at articles when I've known more about the situation than than reporter appeared to). But I'm not shy at all about questioning "the genius of some of the greatest minds of our time." And I can read that book written thousands of years ago and see Truth and Wisdom behind those impossible and implausible stories. While I may not believe that everyone who doesn't see that Truth or Wisdom the way I do is destined for hell, I do think that what that book has to say is as relevant and prophetic now as it was thousands of years ago. And it seems to me that
some of the greatest minds of our time agree.
Sorry to unload on you; perhaps I just need to step away from this thread for awhile.