if you think that i'm nothing

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11:32 am.

Ne, AJ, I don't, um, agree with you at all. Probably because my terms of definition are different. And, hey, I'm not Christian because of my parents (who are heathen. i mean, uh, agnostic), so go me!

Believing that every unbeliever is damned is a facet of only certain Christians' worldviews, and not common to all. You /have/ got a point in that Christians who ascribe to the Evangelical forms of Christianity /should/ go and do their evangelical thing, however annoying it may be, but the fact remains that a large proportion of Christians have set aside the whole belief-in-the-damnation-of-the-heathen thing. Which might be more of a western-european thing, i guess, but. My personal view on it is that 'salvation' comes though Good Works, through faith in something positive: Christianity is one of those ways, but it's illogical to assume that the vast proportion of the world will go to hell just because they didn't fit in with one set of spiritual and social values.

This isn't so new: the 1789 Toleration Act was the point at which it was 'officially' accepted in Britain that several different religions and versions of religion could co-exist outside of the Church of England. This was a severe blow to the nonconformist Christian groups who had wanted a nation-wide religion formed along their grounds so everyone would be saved. On the other hand, other groups couldn't care less about the saving of others and were fine: and then others began to rationalise it all. If Protestantism is about the close personal relationship with God, there's no way of knowing if a Seeker and a Ranter don't have close personal relationships of their own which qualify them just as firmly as would the relationships of a Presbyterian or Arminian. Same goes for agnostics, and even atheists. I mean, atheists /have/ to be Saved. The strength of their belief!

And Dante's Divine Comedy has the space of Limbo for all those good people who never got a chance to hear about Christ: who's to say there isn't a place for all those who rationally could not accept Christianity, whether because of the sheer idiocy of so many of its believers or the anachronistic restrictions of dogma and bad interpretations of the bible or any other flaw?

Yes, I am studying religious history. How /did/ you guess?

And if i made no sense, well, it's the bleach talking. I should really wash that stuff out before my hair falls off.

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Subject:	homecoming. (musefic)
Time:	10:40 pm.

The strange man pushed his glasses up his nose. They glinted, a reflection of some light somewhere: odd, because, as far as Hilde could tell, there was no light behind her for them to reflect. She should have expected this: come back after a while away, and she didn't know who anyone was anymore.

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