thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-13, joshua m. neff wrote:
Hope for what?
For the record, I'm not saying what you've said is "disproven by history and won't work." I'm saying I don't want to live in a world without suffering, because a world without suffering is a world without joy. And I was never saying, "Sydney, you're being negative and bleak." I was saying, "Sydney, you're denying the possibility that other people may have sussed out the best way to live and it may be a completely different path than yours." The fact that you think polygamy wouldn't work doesn't mean that other people can't figure out a way to make it legitimately work for them. The fact that you think mixing and matching mythologies and symbols is dangerous misses the fact that people have done it and it's worked for them (with no more danger than following an established tradition).
The fact that you've found strength and inspiration in Christ is wonderful, Sydney. But in these threads you told us what you think Christ has to offer us, and it doesn't appeal to me at all.
