Date Posted:23:28:44 09/30/06 Sat Author: Deb Subject: Through, not with regard to... xo In reply to:
Cricket
's message, "Maybe I missed that point, so bear with me here" on 20:47:07 09/30/06 Sat
I'm neither challenging religion in whole nor am I agreeing with fundamentalist fallout therefrom, Cricket. What I intended from this side of the screen is that simple humans are involved.
Humans are not raised inside of (nor do they exist within) a vacuum. As individuals, as peoples, we're susceptible to the influences surrounding us, outside our faith--including foreign policy. And so, I have difficulty wondering religion and doctrine may exist perfectly well as written.
Again, religion and beliefs live through what I perceive and stated above as a "very bare and human sense." Imperfect.
That is not an interpretation of their religion, it is what they have said and how they have acted.
