Re: Tolerance (was: THE WORLD OF THE JINN)

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> I apparently fell in the common trap of assuming what's true in my neck of the
> woods is true everywhere. The Protestant churches in Sweden that I am familiar
> with, or at least their more traditionally minded members, would hold that only
> those who have never heard the Gospel have a chance of entering Heaven without
> having accepted Jesus Christ as their personal saviour. That would exclude most
> Jews and at least a big chunk of all Muslims.
The protestants I know would agree with that. (The ones I know best are in
some sort of denominationy thingy of the Presbyterian Church common in SE
Asia, and some of them would rather die than use a bible other than the
KJV.) My Christian education, however, has been Catholic (Mum's side) and
Baptist (Dad's side).

> May I ask, tho, how long-standing these parts of the Catholic Catechism are? It
> strikes me as, well, a bit 20th century.
Yes, you may. Go ahead :)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
                                -- Larry Wall

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