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Subject: Re: Religion is bad? Author: Rational Man [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 19:15:59 12/29/01 Sat In reply to: WN 's message, "Re: Religion is bad?" on 19:07:19 12/29/01 Sat You need a good shrink. See if you can get a group rate and take S with ya. Bye bye board. It's an embarrassment to be associated with half of the recent posts. <-- not angry. Just not: 1. Trash 2. Ignorant 3. or a Victim [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Religion is bad? Author: S [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:53:08 12/29/01 Sat Because I agreed with the original point that religion is not necessarily bad, I forgot to add that I do believe the church I grew up in is bad. Though a few people like my parents are sincere in their practice of that particular brand of Christianity, for the most part the church itself is rotten to the core. It has done more harm than good. I know more people who became drug addicts because of the way they were treated in that church than I know people who've benefited from it. My brothers and sisters and I came out of it okay because we had each other. We hung tight. We loved each other. And we rose above the insiduous destruction of that religion. And say what you might about our attitudes, we're not just survivors, we're success stories. We all have responsible positions in society, and we all take those roles seriously. All three of my brothers own their own businesses and do very well for themselves. I joke about my sister living the Southern Belle life a lot, but she actually works very hard. She is involved in just about every charity in town. And she's raised her children to do the same. My sister's daughter went to a high school where they had two proms--one for white kids and one for black kids. She passed around a petition and organized a group of students to complain. They got it changed. The people who fought the hardest against it were the most 'religious' of the bunch. If that's what it takes to be considered trash around here, sign me up, please. I don't think faith is bad, but I do think blind faith is down right dangerous. I don't care what name the god of blind faith goes by, he/she/it is deadly, and we should all be angry that he/she/it still has such power in our world.

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Religion is bad? Author: WN [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:18:50 12/30/01 Sun >You need a good shrink. See if you can get a group >rate and take S with ya. > >Bye bye board. It's an embarrassment to be associated >with half of the recent posts. > ><-- not angry. Just not: > >1. Trash >2. Ignorant >3. or a Victim If you're not 1, 2 or 3, my man, what are ya? Complete without a problem or a care? I get along as well with "trash" as I do with upper crust. I prefer "trash" to stiff upper lips, however. Ah, ignorant. I love ignorance, especially in the presence of those who feel illuminated to all things knowledge. A victim...who isn't? What demons do we hide from ourselves? I apologize to you if you are embarassed to be associated with some of these posts. I've noticed throughout life that those things that embarass people the most are those things that they associate themselves closely to. A big mistake people make is thinking the State appointed psychiatrist is your friend. I know I'll miss you. Peace, bro.