The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102635   Message #2085265
Posted By: CarolC
23-Jun-07 - 10:03 PM
Thread Name: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Subject: RE: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
I won't say I understand it, but I know what the fundamentals are, and I know what the fundamentalist Christians I've spent time with believe.


But he was a salesman before he was your savior. That is, if we are to accept your premise that those who prosletize are salesmen. According to your holy book that's what he devoted most of his life to right up until the time of his death.


I'll tell you what I think the fundamentals of your religion are, and you tell me if I'm wrong. The fundamentals of your religion are that Jesus Christ is the son of God, that he died for your sins, and that a personal relationship with God and Jesus Christ, and acceptance of Jesus Christ as your personal savior are the requirements for salvation. Am I close? Pretty much all of the fundamentalist Christians I have encountered hold those beliefs as the fundamentals of their religion.


However, as I said before, the belief I have been talking about with regard to the second coming has never been presented as one of the fundamentals of the religion of those fundamentalist Christians who believe it. I don't need to understand them or their religion to know what they themselves have said they believe.