thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-09, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
Everyone—especially Clinton and Tris—thanks for your kind words and honest questions.
Clinton: No one will be surprised that I think he's omitted a particular idea: 'No one should be surprised when I [Sydney] say that it particularly helps [me] to be a Christian.' My grandmother-in-law is Vietnamese, and follows a form of Buddhism I can't comprehend....She knows the Face of God, though, or whatever your tradition calls it. For her, it would not particularly help to be a Christian; and for me, it would not particularly help to be her type of Buddhist.
Raven: it seems to me that while Sydney is saying these are all good paths, Christianity is the best path, and not just for him.
Ian: that is what keeps from Christianity—the corruption of the sword. I see it even in Lewis...
