From: bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adam Trent Phillips)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism,alt.slack
Subject: Re: You should be a Christian because (30 words max):
Date: 17 Dec 1992 05:31:39 GMT
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lungtt@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Terence T. Lung) on Wed Dec 16 21:38 1992 posted:
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|In article <1glaalINNfjm@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders) writes:
|>In article <1992Dec11.045805.22624@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> amorgan@csd-d-4.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog) writes:
|>%In article <1992Dec10.172246.1@cubldr.colorado.edu> 
|>%  holt_c@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
|>% 
|>%>I don't know why, but this reminds me of the absolute weirdest sin I've ever
|>%>been accused of.  It came during my infiltration of the Church of Christ here
|>%>on campus...
 
|Is this a branch of the Church of Christ known in Indianapolis or Boston?
|If it is, be careful!  These guys are nuts.  Christ purportedly said
|"I am the vine, you are the branches..."  If this group is not connected,
|they're simply not part of the vine.  Period.
	I think he was originally refering to the Mormons. You might be
thinking of the Boson based "Church or Christ Scientist", a different church.
 
 
|
|>%This sounds like the most sensible thing I have ever heard a religion
|>%say...
 
|This group (the ones in Boston/Indianapolis/etc) has very little
|to do with Christ.  One of their prerequisites for your salvation 
|involves getting baptized on *their* premises and becoming a member
|of *their* particular congregation.  Otherwise, you're just a heathen.
|Then they attempt to envelope your life within their membership, 
|isolating you from the rest of the world--other religious folk 
|(others that call themselves Christians included).  If you're 
|not interested, they try to alienate you and send you on a guilt 
|trip for *not being with them*.  Most mainstream churches might 
|come across as sending you on a guilt trip for *being who
|you are* not *being with any particular ORGANIZATION*.
|Does this sound like JWs?  JWs are tame compared with these guys.
|Don't shudder yet, more of these kind of religions are popping
|out these days.  If you're interested, pray in Christ's name
|and let the Holy Spirit convict you, NOT the deceiving names
|of man-made organizations--Christians that shamefully bear
|Christ's name, Witnesses that haven't witnessed anything, and churches
|of Christ that aren't of Christ...
|
|>Brings a whole new meaning to "I'm on a mission from God"
|>
|>Jason
|
|Check them out.  See if I'm wrong.  If this group has nothing
|to do with that Indianapolis or Boston group, I've jumped the
|gun big time.  In that case, write more.  Let's see what else
|these guys want from you.
|
|If you desire that I see a response to any inquiries, please
|send me mail directly as I will be doing research in absentia
|for a couple weeks and won't be back until New Year's Eve.
 
Terence
 
	I thought you where joking. Most of us Atheists are not interested
in who is the most "consistent" christian church. It is all a load super-
stitious BS to me. If you where joking, then sorry I did not get it. It
is just that some theists are SO nutty that they seem like a joke.
 

-- 
A. TRENT PHILLIPS |" A mirror is a negative space with a frame and a place for
  also known as   | your face, it reveals what the rest of us see. It conceals
   WHITE  ROOK    | what you'd like you to be."--Blue Oyster Cult
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