... on Sun, 02 Feb 2003, "Melissa Richardson" writes:
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please, try not to judge all Christians based on the actions of some.  No one 
likes to be stereotyped like that.  Not you, not me, no one.
 
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     I really don't think _any_ religion should be judged at all...  When it 
comes down to the basis of it all, people are still people.  I know I had 
commented on the silliness of Christianity 'judging' where a person 'goes' 
after they die.  Maybe I should expound on that and say that the comment 
wasn't targeted at anybody.  It was targeted at the religion, itself, since 
it is the religion that leads its followers to believe such.
 

     I _do_ know that not all Christians are like that.  My mother was 
Christian.  I used to be one.  Of course she didn't like it when I had chosen 
Buddhism, and she did try to convert me back to Christianity, just like she 
tried to convert my father, who was Buddhist, before he died.  How my father 
and mother "hooked up" I really don't know, and it really doesn't concern 
me.