Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 16:47:46 -0800
From: Christine M******
To: Darwin@Atheists.net
Subject: Eternity

I think it's so sad that you think of religion as a waste of time.  In
reality, faith is the only thing in this world that actually makes
sense, and not only makes sense, but actually explains things.  Since
you are an atheist, do you believe that the world was not made by any
outside power, but just suddenly came into being?  This is a passage
from the book I'm currently reading, called "Mere Christianity":
    "People who take that view [that the world wasn't made by anyone]
think that matter and space just happen to exist,      and always have
existed, nobody knows why; and that the matter, behaving in certain
fixed ways, has just happened, by a sort of fluke, to produce creatures
like ourselves who are able to think.  By one chance in a thousand
something hit our sun and made it produce the planets; and by another
thousandth chance the chemicals necessary for life, and the right
temperature, occured on one of these planets, and so some of the matter
on this earth came alive; and then, by a very long series of chances,
the living creatures developed into things like us."

Doesn't that sound pretty unlikely?  I'm a 20 year old university
student- I'm intelligent and educated.  I am not a christian merely
because some priest has scared me into believing that if I don't pray to
God I will spend eternity in hell.  I believe it because I have
experienced Him in my life and can no longer deny that he leads me and
helps me in ways I can't even imagine every day.  I believe that he led
me to your site.  If you can believe it, I was doing research on
statistics Canada, and ended up here, without searching out anything
even related to this subject.

I'm sure that there are alot of people who e-mail you to blast you for
believing what you do.  I don't want to do that.  I want to introduce
you to a loving, generous God who loves you as much as he loves the most
pious person on this earth.  He is calling you and that is why he led me
to you.  Accepting Jesus into your heart will bring immeasurable confort
and understanding.  Good luck in your search for fulfillment.

If you would like to talk to me, my e-mail address is
cm******@hotmail.com   Please consider what I have told you.