Jesus Saves or does he?

Troy Harris tlh at RUBENS.ITS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU
Fri Jun 14 09:57:27 EDT 1996


On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Le Monsieur Damon wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Ted Jackson jr. wrote:
> > Considering that all religions are based on superstition, and presume
> > things that can't be proven, why do we humans take them so damned
> > seriously?
> Because, as Alex said earlier, some people have experienced things which
> demonstrate that religion is not simply a matter of superstition.
>
> I, for one, have seen a few things (no, not fake "healings" on some
> televangelism show, but in my life) which say to me that there is plenty
> of merit to religious belief.  These things that I've seen, which you may
> or may not care to hear, aren't such spectacles as plagues and sticks
> turning into snakes and people rising from the dead and all that, but
> more along the lines of the changes I've seen in people that simply would
> not have happened their own.  I'd give specific examples, but it would
> take up quite a bit of space here.
>
> Damon Capehart          | "I think we should eliminate semicolons from the
> aka Le Monsieur         |  English language; nobody uses them anymore
> dcapehar at utdallas.edu   |  anyway." - one of Dilbert's anonymous coworkers
>
> P.S.:  Thanks for the support, Alex G.
>
   I again concur and support.
     Troy



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