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>>>>>So do you agree with this from The Church of England?
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>>>>Ambiguous question. Are you saying, is this what the C of E taught me or do I agree with this teaching, or is this my understanding of their teaching. (polybiguous?). I've told you what MY expectations are. I believe we survive death in a spirit form anyaway, indep. of Xian beliefs, and I have ample personal evidence to assure me of this. I believe it's advantageous to be good and spiritual in this life for your advancement in the next.
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>>>I'm just trying to see if you're committed to the beliefs of the church where you have had your children baptized.
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>>Why would it matter to you whether he is or isn't?
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>I suppose it doesnt' really matter to me - but - when someone says they are a Christian, it causes me to wonder what they mean by that and how committed they are to that belief.

I assumed that when a baby is babtised it becomes a christian, as opposed to a Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Shintoist, etc.
I accept the teachings of Jesus, the 10 commandments and all that, but I have serious reservations about terms like "worshiping through jesus", the "immaculate contraption", the full Constantine Creed (which was forced on the fledgling Church by a non-christian, pushy Roman emperor), and a lot of the medieval mumbo-jumbo.

The rational human in me baulks at having to say some of the stuff (e.g. in a recent christening I went to). In a perverse way I feel that if there is a God, and He's omniscient and all that, then reciting stuff that is a lie in my heart will offend Him. Again, it's all that put-the-muckies-up-the-congregation, 3-in-1, and through-Christ salvation and damnation business that you blindly adhere to that I don't buy.

I'll say it again: The bible is not the word of God, but that of the men who wrote it, and I'm buggered if I'm going to live my life according to the rules & regs, and primitive interpretaion of the World and reality, laid down by some bearded scholars 2,000 years ago.

Why shouldn't you abide by the writings of any educated scholar from the Middle East of today? What made those ancients so right?

- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.