On May 4, 7:40=A0pm, "Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAM...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Rev.Ivan.St...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Quakerism has been degnerating now for at least the past 50 years,
> > probably longer. It was probably some Freemason bull**** from the very
> > beginning.
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> Nope, it was founded by George Fox, who had had enough of the hypocrisy
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> corruption of the Church (Chrurch of England, Catholicism) and wanted to
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> back to the point, ie, God.
Fox's approach to the Christian faith was unique and uncompromising.
> > I used to have some respect for Quakerism. I don't anymore. I know now
> > that Quakerism is little more than the mentally-ill remains of a dying
> > race of people, in their death throes, brought on by ignorance and
> > moral degeneracy.
>
> Race of people? Quakers are not a _race_ of anything. Just people.
The original poster's rant makes me sick.
> > The same applies to the "unitarian universalist" church, another
> > pathetic satanist piel of crap run by ****ed up white people, whose
> > race is no longer able to reproduce itself.
>
> >http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/aprilweb-only/118-11.0.html
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> Despite your ill informed rhetoric, it is is an interesting article
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> subject that may split the FGC from the rest of Quakerism.
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> Being pagan-friendly myself, I am happy to acknowledge that pagans are
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> God's children, made in Hir Image, are loved, and are equal to myself in
> Godde's eyes. That they approach the divine from a different direction
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> not mean I should condemn them, heck, if that were the case, then every
> relgion besides one own should be condemned as clearly it is 'wrong'.
>
> I can see the author's point that welcoming those who are not Christian
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> Quakerism is in one way threatening the very foundations Quakerism was
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> on, but in another way it is also the inevitable outcome of welcoming
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> and acknowleding that all human beings have the Spirit of God within
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> Perhaps Quakerism therefore isn't so much a religion as a philsophy that
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> bring together people of different religions - again much like the UU
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> by acknowleding everyone as equal among equals and not condemning those
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> are different 'to us'.
I have thought deeply about the long-standing policy in New England
Quaker circles of welcoming non-Christians in the Wor****p Meeting.
Personally, I favor re-alignment because to me the two do not mix.
> One of th ebig probelms with main stream Christianity, as I see it, is
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> total dissmisal of other faiths not on any other grounds than simply
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> they 'aren't Christian', even if they have many of teachigns in common
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> Christianity. By condemning other faiths wholeheartedly, rather than
> exmaining them, are we not also condemn those beliefs we hold in common?
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> healthy, respectful dialogue, and learning, and being guided by God to
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> everyone (and ourselves) as 'equally human' is surely what we are
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> to be doing - and in that way, talking to, listening respecfully and
> attentively, and *loving* Pagans is surely what Christ would have wanted
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> to do - that doesn't make us Pagans ourselves, but I think it woudl make
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> better people and indeed better Christians.
>...
For mainstream Christianity to me the Doctrine is in deep, deep
trouble because it has lost its zen, because Jesus has lost his
divinity, because the Bible is not to be believed.
Even so, countries outside the USA will see a big conflict
between Christians and Moslems with each side racing to
proselytize. I predict Europe will turn increasingly Moslem.
May God heal the world!
d.c.
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