Posted by Declan on September 27, 2006, at 14:40:25 [reposted on September 29, 2006, at 23:03:40 | original URL]
In reply to Re: I feel better now... Michael83 » Declan, posted by Michael83 on September 27, 2006, at 1:28:45
Michael, "belief in Jesus as the only way to salvation" is a bit different from the Christianity I was brought up on. We were told that too, I guess, but believed inconsistantly that those who hadn't had the opportunity to hear the Word were OK, and even those who were in the wrong (everyone but us) were OK too, as long as they were good (or something).
Sunday School was taken by Baptists who taught us all about Satan being tied up for 1000 years (in the bottomless pit?), and then him being loosed on the world and Armageddon and all that interesting stuff.
It took me a while to understand that the men didn't really believe in any of it, while the women would have liked to. This explained the funny looks everyone had on their faces as they came back from Communion. I asked my mother what they were doing up there and she said something about a body. I assumed she was talking about sex and left it at that (maybe I was right?). But anyway, that was a while ago and there's been a fundamentalist revival since.
You know how in Islam apostasy (turning from the faith) is a capital offence? When I was growing up we were culturally secure/arrogant enough to believe that we were much more enlightened.
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