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At 12:37 AM 6/10/99 -0500, you wrote:

>Till,

>I think that you are not angry with Jesus, but your specific faith. I spent

12 years living out of doors, being publicly abused and humiliated by those
who thought that they knew what they were doing. If it weren't for my love
of God, I would either be dead, or in prison.

>I do hope that you shall come to terms with the anger that is obviously in you.

>MDH


TILL
I don't conduct private correspondence, so I am posting this on an internet
list.  

Your experience proves nothing.  There are people whose lives have been
dramatically changed by adopting belief in Islam, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism,
Scientology, New Age-ism, etc., etc., etc.  You suggest that you were
homeless for 12 years, so I would suspect that your conversion resulted from
experiences that you had at homeless shelters maintained by Christian
organizations.  Your conversion very likely resulted from an emotional
feeling of gratitude, but had you had experiences with shelters maintained
by Islamic organizations, you would now be praising Allah for saving your
life and keeping you out of prison.  My own life was changed dramatically by
abandoning Christianity and becoming a skeptic.  If your experience proves
that Christianity is true, then the experiences of others would prove the
truth of Islam, Hinduism, Scientology, skepticism, etc., etc., etc.  This is
a simple matter of what proves too much proves nothing at all.  It is a pity
that you have allowed your ability to reason rationally to be impaired by a
meaningless personal experience.




Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net

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