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2. Is the person who accepts stolen goods also a crimminal?

3. Why isn't it enough to just follow Christ's "teachings"...why does he have to be killed and eaten?

4. What would have happeded to Christianity if Jesus had lived? Was there nothing of benefit to it otherwise?

5. What makes Christianity different from Judaism and Islam...Buddhism and Shintoism...in other words what does Christianity teach its followers to practise that NO OTHER religion teaches?

6. If there had been no books available, no eyewitnesses and no memeory of their own past among Native Americans...would you believe they accepted Jesus joyfully or willingly and the state they find themselves in today is a result of the natural curve of their development?

7. Were Native American children taken way from their parents and raised in Christian boarding schools and were they denied the use of any and all of the customs that made them who they were for hundreds and maybe thousands of years before that, including their own religions?

8. Is this a good thing to do to people?

9. What do you think the chances are that the Assyrians threw away their own god, customs and cultures for a Jew? Was it a Jewish army that brought Christianity or a Christin army?

10. If it could, do you think your Church would prefer to cover up what really happened to all the Native People in the New World..that includes, South America, North America, Central America, Canada, Alaska and the icy stuff above that all the way to the Arctic Circle not to mention all those islands in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? Where did they all go to? What happened to all of their culture and languages and Native gods?

11. Do you think other people are entitled to listen to their own gods, the ones that inspire them and hold them together the same as you believe you should be allowed to listen to and believe in your own?

a. If "yes", then why did so many people who never heard of Christ till the Romans marched down on them...suddenly lose interest in their own? Do you think the Romans were kind people who inspired confidence?

b. If "No", then what is your church willing to do to enforce compliance?

12. Had there been newspapers and news shows and printing presses and independent eyewitnesses...what might they have seen to report in Betnahrain at the time Christianity first appeared?

13. Knowing how the Native Americans were brutalized...and then pretending for a moment not to know it...would you be able to guess by looking at what has become of the majority of Native Americans...still living in squalor on Reservations...that something catastrophic happened to them when they were introduced to Christianity through its followers?

14. Looking at what our own Christans have become...would you assume something wonderful happened to the children of Ashur, or a catastrophe?

15. Do you believe that only Christians know of self-sacrifice...of selfless love? Do you think Muslims and Jews and Buddhists know these things too?

16. Why does Christianity only, of all the religions in the world, have to kill its founder and eat him before any of them can get eternal life?

17. Since there are so many failed Christians, as even you agree...could it be possible that Christianity has failed..and not the people? And what can be done if it is the people's fault...drown them again? Burn them all? Where will this end?

18. Why did so many people have to be forced into Christianity?

...get through these and I've got a few million more. And by the way...ask me anything you care to...just don't lecture me and load the dice in the guise of a preamble...keep it direct and simple. Now mind you...when you ask me, I will give you MY answers...when you answer, I'm afraid we'll just be hearing "His" answers all over again...but give it your best shot...if you get stuck, let us know.

just to leave you with something...when you follow people...I don't care how wonderful or perfect they are...you don't become yourself...you become an approximation, an imitation of someone else. The person you follow didn't do that or we would still be living in caves. When you pattern yourself after others, you fail to develop a self...and you are stuck repeating what you memorized of other people's words...this makes you liable to run out of things to say quickly...especially when you come up against someone who isn't following anybody but spends his or her time finding out what HIS or HER voice is...when this happens to the inauthentic person, the mouthpiece of someone else...they are quickly angered and reduced to tears of frustration and the only way out for them is an ignominious retreat, hurling insults as they go and making dire threats and the rest of it.

You've accused me of being an egomanaiacal leader with just such follwers and liable to lure more...I'd suggest that the two you've had exchanges with are most polite, thoughtful, decent, gentle and calm...so obviously you are mistaken...they are nothing like me. They are their own...you are not...you are God's.

It's best to find your own voice...then you won't have to shout so much to be heard. And the nice thing is, if you dig deep enough and are honest and curageous...you'll go so deep within yourself you'll strike that common river that flows though us all...but at depths most people are afraid, or were made afraid, to go looking...that river is God and it's a god you don't yet know.

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