"Wes" <bruwestro@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Jan 15, 6:55 pm, Arbitrar Of Quality <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> then, would you have
>> me do?"
>>
>> True. But at least learn your inability to believe, since reason brings
you
>> to this, and yet you cannot believe. Endeavour, then, to convince
yourself,
>> not by increase of proofs of God, but by the abatement of your
passions. You
>> would like to attain faith and do not know the way; you would like to
cure
>> yourself of unbelief and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have
been
>> bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are
people
>> who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of
>> which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting
as
>> if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even
this
>> will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness. "But this
is
>> what I am afraid of." And why? What have you to lose?
>>
>> But to show you that this leads you there, it is this which will lessen
the
>> passions, which are your stumbling-blocks.
>>
>> The end of this discourse.--Now, what harm will befall you in taking
this
>> side?
>
> Is Google groups going crazy or am I?
>
> Wes
It's not just Google Groups, the whole Buffy Newsgroup has gone
religion mad.
David
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