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Ärende: Factual error...
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->  -> Couldst be!  I find very few ministers come remotely close to
following
->  JO> what
->  -> their
->  -> supposed founder commanded them to do...
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->  JO> This is true (and a major disappointment of mine) BUT -- his
teachings
->  JO> didn't start a church...early Christians mainly had Faith (Not
belief,
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-> Similar happend to Buddha. 

I laud, embrace, and study Mahayana Buddhism.   
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->  -> Most denominations hold to the same basic beliefs...
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->  JO> Well,,,,the mark of a theologian is his infinite capacity to make
->  JO> distinctions...:-)
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-> My favorite is the need to know how mant angels can dnce on the head of
a pin.
Discussed (at GREAT length) in the Summa Theologica :-)
(Is God or His minions corporeal?)
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->  JO> I think churches that ban fun things
->  -> like music to be quite suspect in their interface with the real
world.
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-> You really need to do something about your quoting! 
I does what I can with what I is given...Doc's Place provides an editor -
it looks good when I send it; it looks terrible when I see it in other
people's posts: it's been a problem for seven hundred years! Ever since I
blew DOS and has to leave Blue-Wave...(After owning a computer for over 25
years, last week I learned how to Copy and paste! Whee!) Now, 'Doc"
provides a lot of services and provides it free and I have no idea as to
how to correct a problem that no one else seems to have.  
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->  JO> The flag of distinction...The satisfaction of being a little
->  JO> different...The  real quarrel I have here is music 'being fun'. I
->  JO> think it is profound, provocative, entrancing: "Without music, life
->  JO> would be a mistake." (Nietzsche).(If there was any justice, My
->  JO> piano-playing would be a federal crime.)   
-> 
-> No one said everyone has to have musical talent.  And, based on
_American
-> Idol_, even that isn't a detriment.

:-) Never watched it.  
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->  JO> Money is power, influence. Sometimes a whip helps :-_
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->  ->  Other churches aren't much different...
->  JO> Yer talking big churches. There are tens of thousands of small
->  JO> churches honestly run by sincere pastors. And churches that are
failing
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-> Their goal, to be the one trVue Church, implies they all want to be the
-> biggest. 
Most seem merely (merely!) to have the goal to be _A_ true church.  
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->  JO> time and
->  -> the others are playing catch-up.
->  JO> I can hear it now: "Go, Luther, go! C'mon baby, let's make it
happen!"
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-> I can't picture Lutherans cheering like that. 

Hey Martin threw an ink-bottle at the devil!

And hell, you can't picture having an honest faith! :-)
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-> 
-> 
-> ... Evolution: Life's a niche, and then you die
I'm swiping THAT. :-)
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