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Originally posted by Anne Bryant-Hamon:
I know of no Jew, Jehovah's Witness or Buddhist that teaches an image of God as being an unforgiving, furious Deity.
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Interesting - I'll have to see if I can get Dan to leave his football boards for a couple minutes and have him introduce you to the Jewish God of the Old Testament. You know the One - He's the God who smote thousands of people several times over because they'd displeased Him. The One that sent Noah the flood and tore down Babel and turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt and afflicted Job. That God.
I'd also suggest you find a web page about The Witnesses.
This is a good start:
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8034_1.html
Pay particular attention as to just who is going to be saved in the end and why.
As for not trusting Catholics or Baptists to run the country - how did you feel about John Kennedy? Warren Harding? Harry Truman? Jimmy Carter? Bill Clinton?
Out of 43 presidents only 2 of them did not have a religious affiliation. The great majority of them were some form of Christian - 2 were Quakers, 1 was a Jehovah Witness. The rest were Episcopalian, Christian Reformed,
Methodist, Presbyterian, or Unitarian. All traditionally "Christian."
Has there not been a president in the bunch other than Abraham Lincoln or Andrew Johnson that you'd feel safe under?
Lo