From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 11 13:33:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E1037B400; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from directvinternet.com (dsl-65-185-140-165.telocity.com [65.185.140.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247C743E6A; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from Tolstoy.home.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by directvinternet.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8BKXBGd048456; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:33:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nwestfal@directvinternet.com) Received: from localhost (nwestfal@localhost) by Tolstoy.home.lan (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g8BKXBH1048453; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:33:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Tolstoy.home.lan: nwestfal owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:33:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Neal E. Westfall" X-X-Sender: nwestfal@Tolstoy.home.lan To: Joshua Lee Cc: dave@jetcafe.org, , , Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? In-Reply-To: <20020911082227.7cbdc155.yid@softhome.net> Message-ID: <20020911133003.K45696-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Joshua Lee wrote: > > Most people don't, but then most people's opinions are not what > > counts, only God can tell us what is deserving of eternal punishment. > > It is this sort of thinking that justified the inquisition. If someone > is going to be eternally tortured by god if nothing is done anyway, > what's wrong with a little bit of torture on earth in order to admit > their soul into heaven? Sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about. The inquisition tortured more Protestants than anyone else. I challenge you to provide some proof that the doctrine of hell justified the inquisition. Sounds to me like you are just having emotional fits at the prospect that sinning against an eternal God deserves eternal punishment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message