Re: Christianity Redux?

From: Kate Distin (memes@distin.co.uk)
Date: Tue 26 Apr 2005 - 20:06:33 GMT

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Bill Spight wrote:
> Dear Kate,
>
> > The only snag with these jokes is that, amusing as they are, they
> > kind of miss the point wrt Christianity, which holds that "we are
> > free to serve God not in the old obedience to the letter of the Law,
> > but in a new way, in the Spirit." (Romans 7 for this particular
> > quotation, but that's one of the key messages of the whole of the New
> > Testament.)
>
>
>
> I think that what they are lampooning misses that point. <sigh> Welcome
> to the Bible Belt.
>
> Bill
>
>

A fair point that hadn't occurred to me. On the whole, UK Christians live in splendid memetic isolation from the Bible Belt memes!

Kate

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