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Originally Posted by MikeSTI
If we want to get to the bottom of this I think we must first establish want you want in the end of the thread and go from there. I don't know!!!??1!!  |
Well, Scott and I were originally saying we thought the major organized religions were pretty much the same in terms of their big-picture ideas. Then it turned into a debate about whether this is a "Christian nation"... I'm not sure where it's going now.
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Originally Posted by MikeSTI
I don't want to sound preachy by any means, if I do its only because you don't want to hear what I am saying becasue it doesn't fall in line with your belief's?
....my hope would be that one day I could put together a response that is so powerfull that all non-believers on this board would face the facts that there is a God and he is in control of your life and everyother life on this plant. Therefor we should respect what he has done for this nation and all who live in it.
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This is exactly what I was talking about earlier about sounding "preachy"; honestly it sounds like it's so deeply ingrained in you that you preach without even meaning to preach.
From what I have gathered in our forum discussions here, the biggest single difference between your religious beliefs and mine, is that
I Am Okay With Other People Not Believing What I Do. I don't harbor any deep desire to convert other people to my way of thinking. If they believe something else, fine, so be it - whatever floats their boat. You'd do well to learn from that; it's much easier for two people to have a calm, rational religious discussion when they don't feel like the other person is constantly thinking about what a poor, sad, non-believer soul they are and trying to convince them of "The Way".