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Re: Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged

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Anthony

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Date Posted: 12:34:42 04/02/01 Mon
In reply to: Floppy 's message, "Re: Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged" on 12:23:45 04/02/01 Mon

Scary indeed. I consider this another example of how human beings can ruin religion, how they can warp it and make it unappealing. We need to remember that it is the humans using the religion and NOT the religion using the humans here. It is the user and not the tool at fault. And I argue that the Bible itself has been warped by the hands of the power-hungry and self-serving to marginalize everyone from homosexuals to practitioners of other religions. But that's a whole nuther conversation. My point is that we must never lose sight of the human element to this madness. This way we can stop people from losing sight of the spirit. This is my bias coming in to play here, mind you. I see the slander of religion as a very scary thing in and of itself. Religions, all of them, can do us a world of good if we use them in moderation and not blindly...this is all my opinion. So I guess I have something of a personal horrific reaction to militant religious folk. I was almost one of them back in the day. NOW THAT's scary!

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