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It really hurts me to think that people feel that they need to feel deep hurt because I've rejected Christianity.

In a way, it's like it hurts me that people can't understand that I've got something that's just as wonderful for me...and I'd like to say that it hurts me that they can't see it like I do and have it for themselves...

...but if I've got something this great, but they've got something else so great that fills the same spot ib their life...then how can it hurt me?

It's like...I've got Hagen-Daazs ice cream, would you like some? Oh, you've got Ben and Jerry's? Cool! Well, uh...here's a picnic table, wanna share?

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[saratoga80.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, oooh! That reminds me of one of my favorite Sun Tzu quotes: "The soldier who retreats 100 steps sneers at the one who retreats 500." Relate quote to argument as appropriate."

Doesn't quite apply here. In this case, Sun Tzu was not referencing a strategy, but rather a personal reflection on the nature of soldiery. After all, if the soldier who retreats 500 wins the battle and the solider who retreats only 100 is outflanked because the enemy has better position, how much is a sneer worth? I am merely referencing that I believe God values honesty more than creed.

"So, what- you're saying "just be a Christian, by yourself, alone, and don't bother trying to help or change anyone who's not," right?"

not at all, I agree that one's Christianity should be active and exemplary in its service. For example, at our Church, I have run the Stewardship committe for 3 years, ran the charity auction, and a few other items, including speaking after the Tsunami disaster to help raise $5000 for people in that area - many of whom aren't Christian.

The point in all this is that my attitude isn't lax. But I change the people around me with results - good works, yes, are testimony to my faith. If someone I know believes who did not before, then bonus, but I will not preach without a willing audience. Call it the old Eagle Scout in me: works *are* faith, they are inseparable. I know about faith alone in the Bible as clause, but my life is an example of religion in practice. But if the progenitor of this discussion never converts, and yet listens and is changed by what I say to do better things, then I say God will smile.

-- Rich

[fervid-dryfire.livejournal.com]

...be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

I wouldn't be rationalizing against the Scripture, if I were you. =\