From: s907459@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Ka Wo Anthony Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: New Topic: Chinese Christians
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:43:38 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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ins882e@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr B.C. Tay) writes:

>Sorry about the testing article........

>I have seen a lot of people response to this queation, thus I decide to 
>join the conversation too.

>From the all articles I have read, the people who response only look at one way
>,that is, from non-religion side or from religion side only.....

>I think that this topic is very deep, indeed one should consider a lot of 
>different point of views.
>What I think is:
>Non-religion side: (1) people tend to get lonely at oversea as there is a new
>environment to live in and one have to get to know new friend. Unfortunately,
>The people oversea tend to have more christian than non-religion people..

They called non-religion people "Heretic".
The Oxford meaning of "heredic" is:
	her-esy n (pl -sies)
		belief or opinion contrary to what is generally accepted,
		esp in religion.

	heretic n person guilty of ~ or supporting a ~;
		person who holds an unorthodox opinion.


This is like being black and people call you Nigger.
This is like being Asian and people call you yellow bastard.

They actually take a book that had reprinted and translated millions of
times and take every single word from it for granted.  So far so good if
they don't bother you, now they give you a name -- "Heretic".
And they warned you "If you don't believe in God, you WILL go to hell."
And they tempted you "Your soul WILL live forever if you believe in God."

They take the Bible as supreme law book but second the purpose believing
in God.  Love become hate when you insist to be a "Heretic".
If they are really sincere, do they have to WARN you?
If they are really sincere, do they have to TEMPT you?

So I am telling you my friend,  every Christain has a different image of
God in their heart.  See for yourself, there are white and black churches
in Africa.
Does it reduce the hatred of white against the black?
Or they MISINTERPRET that God create the black for them as slaves, or living creatures for them to bully and hunt?
Are they destined to be shooting target?

>thus one people may contact with a christian first and get influence by them.  >(ii) christian tend to help other people a lot than the non-religion people,
>this make the non-religion people think that christian is good and thus their
>god.
>(iii) One may not cope with the work load of a uni/school, and in order to get
> through this abnormal period, 
>, he/she have to depend on something that may help them(i.e. god),the reason
>why people may turn up to believe in christ not alah(islam) or buddha is
>because the christian oversea is more active, they tend to have more activities
>and know how to promote the bible...

>From religion side:
>(i) they finally know who is the real god.
>(ii) they want to go to heaven and live forever.
>(iii) they want an ideal world whose thay can live in, thus they want to unite
>people with one religion.

>Finally, my point of view:
>It doesn't matter that whether a person believe in a religion or not.
>the most important thing is, they know how to care and want to care from the
>deep of their heart, that is, with love, one doesn't need to have a god to 
>believe in because their heart is already settle down; with peace and loving.
>If every people in this world is kind and lovely, then we won't know what is
>war and what is bad, right? Thus what is the difference between a christian
>and a non christian, as long as they are the same(have the same behaviour)?
>Actually, what is the horrify part of dead any way? If you think you have
>done enough........what is the different between forever life in heaven and
>totally vanish in this world?
>Hope you get my point, I know my english is not very good.....so...hope
>you do understand it...............

Word of wisdom! Hopefully religion does not turn into the scenario of 1984:
"Big Brother is watching you..."


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>let have some joke here........
>so.........what is a joke?
>Is that consider to be a joke?
>so.....what is a joke????????
>what would a woodchuck do if a woodchuck want to chuck wood?
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