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To: WesternCulture
"By US standards, Scandinavians are atheists, but that doesn’t mean they fail to understand the core of Christ’s teachings"

That's not going to get them past the pearly gates. Intellectualization is all well and good but Faith is what will see you through. They also have one of the highest per capita suicide rates. Coincidence?
15 posted on 09/21/2007 10:46:45 AM PDT by stm (Fred Thompson in 08!)
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To: stm

“That’s not going to get them past the pearly gates. Intellectualization is all well and good but Faith is what will see you through. They also have one of the highest per capita suicide rates. Coincidence?”

- It’s highly discussable whether Christ really put the stress on unrestricted love or unrestricted faith. But I’d say Renaissance giants like Erasmus and Leonardo da Vinci both emphaziced the unrestrictedness of (true) human nature. Personally, I belive Erasmus understood the true message of Christianity very well.

Do good.

Be all you can be.


19 posted on 09/21/2007 11:16:03 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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