-----Original Message-----
From: sodom <Sodom@ma.ultranet.com>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
>That is perfectly typical case. you are most certainly infected with a meme
>beyond your control. I would say that had you been a Catholic at first,
then
>left, you would have gone back to Catholocism. The religion doesn't matter.
You
>simply feel the need to belong, the desire for life to have meaning, to
aleviate
>the fear of death, to give yourself a sense of purpose.
>
>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.
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