"Pro-Humanist FREELOVER" <prohumanist@gr8mail.com> writes:
Some christians have a saying "hate the sin, love the
sinner". Having been a participant on the alt.atheism
and religious newsgroups for close to 16 months,
I must say I rarely see christians expressing love for
disbelievers. Why is that? Why can't believers dislike
the disbelief but love the disbelievers?
Maybe it is the extremists that meet here in religion/atheist
newgroup "battles". The devoted atheists and the devoted
fundamentalist christians, for example.
The tolerant majority stands still and it does
appear here on atheist or religious newsgroups.
Man should always remember people have faith/believe and act
at every moment meaningfully by their inner reality of
their brains.
I live in a country where there is no "Bible Belt",
however there is fundamentalism found also here.
Anyways, the evangelical-lutheran and orthodox
churches are not separated from the state.
These two are the state churches of Finland and
they have the right to tax their members. (You
don't have to belong to any religious group. And you
can practise other religions than Christianity as well.)
However, at least the lutheran church has
quite liberal views on the Christian religion.
They have women as pastors etc.
It seems some of the christian believers in the USA
are much fanatical even tough you have the separation
of religion and state.
But when I look at Finnish religion newgroups, there
are the extremists battling with each other over
here as well. And about 95 per cent of the population
stands still about religious issues in public.
They are talking that are really interested in
and defend religions or atheism/agnostisism.
BTW. I am myself actually not a Christian; I am a
"Kingdom of God"-believer shown and teached by Jesus,
for example, in the Sermon of Mount (Matthew 5 - Matthew 7)
If there is life after dead, its all in God's hands.
I try to be a follower of Jesus, not a Christian.
Jarmo Antero Manninen
born. 8th of November, 1970, in Pieksamaki, Finland
http://www.iki.fi/manninen/
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