Monday, April 24, 2000 1:32 PM

From: Tim Sweitzer

I found your page very interesting and informative. I would probably best consider myself to be a liberal Christian. I don't seen the bible as 100% infallable and there are many contradictions. I think it makes many Christians look sad. That alot of times atheists have a better understanding of the bible then they do. Many will just go in with one mind set. I think a mistake many make is when they say. There is a God or there is No God. When it's best to say. It is my personal belief that there is or is not a God. No one can trully be 100% sure. For anyone to say it's a definite thing either way is ignorant. I see some parts of the bible as true. Other parts as moral fables written to teach lessons. Although Christian I am willing to accept findings of science. I belive it is a mistake for people to follow somethign blindly. Then you learn very little and don't get much from it. thanks once again for such a great page I've really learned alot from it.

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Hi Tim,

Thanks for writing in.

Wow... this makes two reasonable e-mails in a row. Thank you for showing me that the rigid fundamentalist view is only the loudest in volume and not necessarily the most numerous.

While I believe that the findings of science beginning with Galileo through Darwin through Watson and Crick to Einstein and beyond is showing that a god is not necessary to explain our existence, I do not begrudge you the belief that you hold. My biggest issue with people's faith is when they claim that it is the only truth at the expense of all other truths.

As I said in my last e-mail to the last reasonable person to write in, if more Christians were like you, I would never have made a public site debunking the Bible.

Thanks for the breath of fresh air.
Cygnus