So, I guess I go to a "false church"??

Very true.
Because if it weren't, there'd be no need for faith.

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If there was no love I would not ask. As someone pointed out they would not tell someone they don't know they should stop smoking. Why? Because there is no 'love' for a stranger.

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Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. . .Davy Crockett

I have been an admirer and partial practitioner of Buddhism for several decades ever since I was exposed to it while living in Thailand and I think a lot of the great religions of the world could learn a thing or two from Buddhist teachings. Buddhists respect and accept other religions and do not try to convert, only to explain when asked and they base their teachings on a strong moral code and personal conduct.

There has never in the history of the world ever been a war based on Buddhism; perhaps that alone is something to think about.

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Did I miss it? Did Longhorngirl ever come back and give a "how things went" report?

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"Where two people gather in my name, there will I be also" - I think that's how the quote goes.

Whether you're in the "right" church or the "wrong" church, the "true" church or the "false" church, you're human and a lot of what you say or believe isn't going to be entirely accurate. Only God knows the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

The church I went to as a child was really interesting. They believed a lot of wrong things. A lot of good things happened because of that church - and it wasn't the people's beliefs which made them happen. God was there, because we were gathered in His name, and He did His work.

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A man named Arthur Pink grew up in England. He was raised in a Christian home but became very interested in theosophy which involved communications (supposedly) with the dead. He became heavily involved with that teaching and even became one of the leaders. His father would often warn him of the path he had taken away from the One True God.. One day his father quoted the words of Proverbs 14:12 to his son as he was retiring to his bedroom after one of his spiritism meetings. " There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."

The words impacted the young man deeply and he stayed in his room for three days under God's conviction. He was scheduled to speak at a large Spiritism meeting at the end of those days of seclusion and he kept his appointment and went. At the meeting he stood before his fellow Spiritists and preached the gospel. What seemeth right is not always right. We can be deceived.

Paul was not looking for Jesus that day he met Him on the Damascus Road. When he met the risen and glorified Savior, he was on his way to arrest and persecute Christians. The Lord revealed himself to Paul in a vision of glory blinding him until the Lord healed him through one of his servants. Paul discovered who Jesus really was. Paul was feared by all the Christians. Paul obeyed the Lord from that time on.
If you want to read the story in more detail, here it is:
http://www.evangelical-times.org/arc...ment-with-God/
May God be pleased to shine His light into your heart.

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These are all examples of non-Muslim minorities in Muslim dominated countries

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...l-8563600.html

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Perhaps because in some (read Muslim dominated sharia law countries) this is a death sentence?

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Roger

There is evidence that smoking is bad for your health. There is no evidence that hell even exists.

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I have never been the most religious person over the course of my life. I went to church regularly for the first 35 years of my life.

A (allegedelly) religious ex had something to do with my disillusion, but that is a whole different story.....

I am a student of history. Currently reading the history of Byzantium. I just finished a history of the Crusades (including the Baltic and against the heretics).

just sayin'

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Roger

Don't know what you are reading. I generally don't trust anything written after the late 1800's. Just wondering if you are finding any surprises in your current reading.??

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Actually, I think you're being over-generous here. A debate requires some back-and-forth, and generally requires that one's position be supported by some sort of demonstrable evidence. This situation isn't a debate, because it seems to involve little more than a single assertion, by one party, that cannot be proven (or debated), because it is based on non-demonstrable evidence (his own belief).

He can't "prove" he's right (and you can't "prove" he's wrong), so there's no actual debate here. I'm not saying that faith isn't important, or belief doesn't matter, but it nonetheless can't be empirically proven. Like love, it's vital element in human life, but you can't measure it in any objective way, so it just isn't debatable.

We have a neighbor like this--a guy who runs right over our "yes, we attend X church, and are comfortable there" and continues to push his brand of God at us. I had to rather clearly explain that he is welcome at our house, so long as he treats us as neighbors, and not potential converts. He has not returned.

PLEASE!!! what happened with the chicks?