Had you never believed, you would have still had the burning desire, but it
would have been aimed differently. you would have aimed this "quest for purpose"
at knowledge, history, science and art. You would have developed your own sense
of worth based upon your own actions and dependent upon no-one else. You would
be content with your real purpose - Be born, live, reproduce, die - and you
would have created for yourself your own purpose.
Sodom
Johnny Rea wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sodom <Sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
> To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
>
> >
> > Johnny, you seem like a good guy, but after reading this last paragraph I
> >understand a lot more about you now. Am I correct in assuming that you were
> >raised a Mormon? And if so, were you told your entire life about the Book
> of
> >Mormon, and how Joseph Smith was visited by God and found the tablets and
> such?
> >Be careful how you answer this, and be honest to us and yourself.
> >
> >Also, that saying, there are no Atheists in foxholes, is only uttered by
> >believers, all Atheists know how absurd that is. I have seen death first
> hand
> >and I have been afraid for my life. That statement is a emotional security
> >blanked for believers, it is a joke to Atheists.
> >
> >Sodom
> >
>
> I am a good guy! I was raised in the church from 6 until I was 18 at which
> time I became
> inactive. I remained inactive until last year when I decided that there was
> nothing
> else out there that meant anything to me. In all the 10 years I was
> inactive I
> never once lost my belief in Mormonism. The fact that I came back had
> nothing to
> do with anything I was told as a child and young man. I came back because I
> began reading the Book of Mormon again and testimonies of others and felt
> the
> burning in my 'bosom'. I knew I had to come back.