>Hi john,
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>>I have read this too. My pastor used to say, "it takes more faith to be an athiest than it does to be a Christian!"
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>Maybe because they will be burned or not helped by the ones who are a cristian. It also implies it is very easy to become a cristian because then you can alway blame god on anything that happens.
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>Great.
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No, I think he meant that it takes a lot more faith to believe this finely tuned universe just happened and continues to stay in synch by happenstance. THAT takes faith!<vbg>