lost_my_calgon wrote:ok i can understand how i came across contradictory....allow me to explain
I believe in GOD. I respect anyones decesion to not believe in him and to follow a different path. I"M asking you to respect the fact that GOD is what I believe and with that belief I feel it is necessary to envoke a little guidance to those who don't believe.
And I am an agnostic -- and I feel it is necessary to envoke a whole bunch of guidance to people like you.
I hope you can respect that!
One of the problems with all this "respect" stuff, Lost, is that you often run into situations like this -- and they are very difficult to resolve.
Personally, most of the "beliefs" I hear from theists are horrendous. As a "for instance", whenever I hear people who guess there is a GOD and who guess that the GOD is a kind, just, loving GOD -- and who then go on to tell me that they think the pathetic, barbaric god of the Bible is that GOD -- I tend to wonder if they are insane.
But I really don't want to get into that right now.
I just want to assure myself, since you are in effect giving a lecture on respect, that I can count on you to respect how I feel in this regard.
I can, right?
I need to go pray....goodbye
