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Hi Ted and all, >"Fundamentalism" > as > I have known it for the past 50 yr. (I am an active member of an > evangelical/fundamentalist congregation) is not what you envision. > Please, attend a few services BEFORE you write your next hate msg. I have no problems with peaceful, apolitical, non-imposing, non-threatening fundamentalism. And I am prepared to believe that you did not impose your belief when evangelizing the Republic of Korea (I ahve not been there to judge it). However, history of christianizing/evangelizing leaves a broad red stream behind almost to the present. So in general, for me, 'non-imposing evangelizing' is a paradoxon, bloody or not. No buddhist will ever try to convince anybody, he just practices and if you like it you have to ask him to tell you. Jesus in this sense was much more a buddhist himself with the crucial difference that he sent out his followers. But at least the early ones were peaceful. The more powerful christianism became the more corrupt became the representatives. 'Root-christians' will have to go a long way to be trusted again. Cheers, Niko -- ------------------------------------------------------------- cc: nikolaus.malchus@uab.es --- Dept. de Geologia/Unitat Paleontologia Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Campus, Edifici Cs 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalunya SPAIN --- Tel 34-93-581-1464 Fax 34-93-581-1263 -------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------
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