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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The way I see it, we're all going to the same place in the end regardless of what building we do or do not pray in, so hating anyone for the religion he was born into seems one of the silliest things I can imagine.
You cannot believe how many people get pissed when I say the above...
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Actually, I'm something of a universalist myself by predeliction - I think (note: I didn't say believe, 'cause I'm not sure I'd go that far, but to the extent I believe any of it, this is what I consider to be the necessary final outcome) that everyone, Christian, atheist, animist, wiccan, saint, sinner, evildooer, whatever, will eventually be "saved," i.e.: returned to oneness with God, and that this resolution is necessary for the apocalypse (aka end of the world, aka final fulfillment of God's plan, whatever). Some people have further to go than others, but since human temporal perception is merely an illusion resulting from our sub-divine state, that doesn't really matter. Ultimate convergence with the godhead is a necessary outcome if you believe that everything, ultimately, eminates from God.
That tends not to be a very popular opinion, either, with much of anyone.
Glad to exile the McDonalds commercial from your mind Fugee - I'd forgotten Britten set that poem, now it's stuck in my head, too.
