What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?
Tonks
tonks_op at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 28 02:56:58 UTC 2007
> Geoff:
> Speaking, as usual(!), as a Christian, I differentiate
> between "faith" and "religion". If someone says to me
> "You're religious aren't you?", my standard reply is "No.
> I'm a Christian".
snip)
In Christianity at least, the basic belief
> is that we follow a person and not a life style which we
> try to maintain by picking ourselves up by our own bootlaces.
Tonks:
I guess I would answer to someone asking if I were religious, "Yes,
I am a Christian". (Or if asked 'are you a Religious'(cap.R), "Yes,
Benedictine".) In the first case I assume the question to be "do you
believe in God?". I would answer, yes and say what "way" or belief I
was following. I am sure you know that Christianity was orginally
called "the Way". The second is, of course, a noun and the answer
shows the method of living in the 'Way' of Christ.
Tonks_op
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