Ms. Linda (if I may call you that), how many lives have you watched fade from eyes?Quahom,
I agree that I shouldn't have posted what I did on the Christianity board. But I think you should understand that it's precisely the belief that "Jesus died: we're all saved" (but ONLY if you believe it) that fundamentalist proselytizers push most aggressively and insist is absolutely essential for salvation. Blayzn Fattyz was doing it with me right before I posted the offending note. They always insist that someday you WILL believe it, no matter how much you insist you won't and can't believe it.
And yet that's the very concept many serious Christians come to question, and that is being called into question on this thread. I haven't heard of anyone leaving the church over "Love thy neighbor as thyself," for example. But they do over this one.
--Linda
My point is, we all know the truth, when the life light is leaving us. I don't know what that truth is, except that the reality is "REAL". We see something, before we leave this plane...
To some, it is comforting, yet to others it is frightening. And before people let go, they look at us (the last thing they understand), with a question mark...
I have seen enough dying eyes to know there is something out there that makes people smile in relief, and others cry out in terror.
So...I do not pass judgment on others for their beliefs...it is what sustains them, and makes them rise above themselves...
Isn't that what we are supposed to do in life?
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