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Old 01-08-2007, 03:47 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Universalism is no doubt another creation by Christian apologists in an attempt to justify their evidenty evil and cruel God. One wonders how they came to this arbitrary conclusion? What rationale did they use? - other than how can we distort this already twisted and senseless religion even more, in order to rationalize our contradicting morals?
This is something that my sister believed. I love my sister and she is absolutely a loving, generous person. This is how she tried/tries to hold the belief of Christianity being real, and not having those weird, icky feelings of having to think about the "other people" who would spend eternity in hell.

In my opinion this is simply the belief of people who have gotten something out of the GOOD parts of Christianity, but can't come to terms with all the terrifying stuff in the Bible. Not being a Christian is out of the question, so they have to reframe it and redefine it into something they are more comfortable with. Still, it's a better form of Xtianity than the Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world could offer.
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