<div>Or written by anyone with a strong sense of stereotypes without the fine-ite knowledge of the deeper details about each religious group, just their stereotypes.<br>~Lance</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List</b> <<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Funny, but of course there is a reason most clergy do not spend time<br>trying to save bears. Bears are not people, do not have souls, and are
<br>not promised eternal life. (Sorry kids, your newly buried puppy will not<br>be in puppy heaven, but you will understand that better when you get to<br>heaven, which hopefully will not be for many decades.)<br><br>I also note that MANY Protestant churches DO baptize by sprinkling water
<br>on a new-born baby, including some that ALSO provide for adult baptism by<br>immersion. Jesus is not known to have expressed a preference, or given<br>any detailed instructions on the matter. It is even possible that John
<br>poured water over him, rather than dunking him under the Jordan.<br><br>Finally, a rabbi would not have been involved in the experiment at all<br>because, as greenBubble has noted, Jews are not evangelical, and do not
<br>try to convert. The bear could have volunteered for conversion, but would<br>have had to go through at least 18 months of instruction before<br>circumcision was an issue, and if the bear gave up, everyone would have<br>
sighed with relief. Obviously the story was written by a Christian.<br><br>Siarlys</blockquote></div>