Ditto


>>>It really shouldn't hurt anyone's feelings...unless they think there is some truth to >it. As I
stated earlier, if you indicated that I was going to Hell b/c I didn't >believe like you, I would think you were wrong - but - my feelings would not be hurt >and I would not put you down for your beliefs.
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>>it's not my feelings i worry about - it's my childrens'. They had a stand-in teacher at school one day who started spouting all your original sin stuff - miserable sinners, fallen from grace, rot in hell etc.
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>>They are not miserable sinners, fallen from grace, in need of redemption ; they are perfect creatures full of fun and mischief with a life of unlimited potential ahead of them. I consider it my duty to keep them as far away from beliefs such as yours for as long as i can.
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>You are a good 'Daddy'. Thanks. Children need 'em. It kind of strikes me as either very dishonest or quite narcissistic when some peoples pose as the humble martyr that is unfaily persecuted by jokes, ribbing, argumentive criticisms about his/her 'beliefs' and yet are unable/unwilling to recognise *any* connection of this behavior to his/her espousal that you and your children are going to hell. They defend this as 'evangelism'. Yeah, and a drive-by shooting is all about justice too, huh?
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>Perhaps these peoples are best to be regarded as an opportunity to teach children, by living example, that they needn't get hooked into fanaticisms, that there are much better & happier ways to live?