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From: blackdog@netcom.com (David E. White)
Subject: Re: Logic down by 2 -- WAS: BABY KILLING JESUS!!!
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: The problem is that the Church and its enthusiasts have already
: overdone all the miracles. They wont to creat them from nonentity. It can't
: help irritating computer-men. The miracle of resurrection is evidently the
: only one worth belief. Because it's enough. Nothing compares with it. Or else,
: this is the only thing worth discussion, if we want to discuss. But
: this is the subject of faith. Hence, we can't discuss it at all.
: We believe or we do not believe. I do not believe.

The miracle of the resurection is just a recycling of the old pagan 
dieing and reviving god  theme.  Pagan themes were adopted to help 
convince early Christians to convert.  All of the holidays are of pagan 
origin with few exceptions (passover comes to mind but this is realy 
Jewish isn't it?).







: Your understanding of faith is too naive. But the religious philosophy is not
: naive at all. Christianity has never promised the paradise on the earth.

Rejoice in your suffering for you will suffer so much the less in the 
afterlife.

: Christianity is the religion of salvation after death. Christianity is the
: first religion of eternal life.

I don't think this works.  The Norse believed they went to Valhalla, just 
one example.

: They promise the eternal life, but just
: after death. Living in Arizona is only a prelude to the true life.

: Moreover, living in Arizone is not a real life at all.

Got to concede to this point.


: Christianity wins the death,
: just because Jesus Christ rose from the dead and had shown to others the
: way to their own resurrection. He had shown that everyone can make the
: Miracle, because everyone is the Son of our God. Not Jesus only, as many
: think, but everyone. Not ever miracle (all the foolish fishes and healings),
: but the Only Great Miracle, the Miracle of Resurrection.

Death and resurrection occur in many many religions throughout history.  
Why should we regard Christianity with any special consideration?



David White
blackdog@netcom.com
Seattle, Wa


