OFF: reply to the truth is out there.

[Ted Jackson jr.]

> From:          blyoung <blyoung at BIGFOOT.COM>
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> Now, I disagree with you about Satan.  It's your opinion that there is
> no such thing, so I don't know if you are an athiest or just an
> agnostic, or whatever, but it's just an opinion nonetheless.  My opinion
> is different, but it's only valid to myself...
>
> I believe that there IS such a thing as the devil, but I don't agree
> with the common perception of a "goat horned redskinned wicked-laughing
> incarnation".  I also believe in a God that is not a dispassionate,
> remote observer, but actually a loving God who cares about his people.
>
> So whatever, that not's the point.  I wish you would just state your
> BELIEF, or your OPINION, instead of making the presumption that your
> opinion is scientific proof.  Why use the word "foolishness"?  Where are
> your scientific proofs that Satan does not exist?
>
>
Where's any proof that such an entity DOES exist?


> > As for death metal, etc., being an evil influence, you can say the same
> > thing about almost any activity or act of expression. The long and the
> > short of it is that evil or unbalanced people do evil and unbalanced
> > things. You can't blame their actions on "evil influences", or "Satan".
> > "The devil made me do it" is yet another excuse in that long human
> > tradition of refusing to accept responsibility for one's own actions.
>
To paraphrase Shakespeare and sundry other observers:  the forces of
evil [assuming such things exist] can only tempt us humans.  We all
have free will to behave as we see fit.  And then bear the
consequences for our actions.  Modern American society is obsessed
with victimization:  putting the blame elsewhere for one's own
actions.  Hence the proliferation of support groups and twelve step
programs.  I'm sure there are guys out there who insist that being a
pedophile is a disease, and that they are victims of a disease, and
thus not responsible for thwie actions...


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> Yeah, I agree with you here.  Death metal is fine.  I listen to it all
> the time (the good stuff anyways), and I don't think I feel compelled to
> show how "evil" I am.
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> > Guido
>
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