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Yes, well actually, they're real nice people in general, but they have this problem with accusing folks. Their savior is an innocent, accused and crucified. You don't see it until it happens to you.
posted by
Jenasis
on December 30, 2006 at 10:53 AM
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SoloWriter - your 4 comments could have been a good post
In your first comment you speak of trust, specifically the inability to trust those who are representative of a church gone astray. It is my feeling that the "church" or any organized religion goes astray the day that it is formed. The second that mankind determines what God wants from us and then attempts to impose these desires as doctrinal guidelines, someone is on the outside looking in. It has been the folly of organized religion since the dawn of time. The accumulation of human currencies and control, proliferating membership and the institutionalized discrimination against all non conforming individuals, are the inherent and unavoidable elements of organized religion. I just cannot buy the idea that if a traditionally defined omnipotent creator being actually existed, that he would not view these things with anything but utter disdain.
posted by
gomedome
on December 28, 2006 at 11:37 AM
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And who let the fairies in? I'm a woman, and most of the women I've ever known have been mostly unlikable. Only the most politely trained have been tolerable in any social context whatsoever.
posted by
Jenasis
on December 28, 2006 at 10:36 AM
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And another thing ---- I never planned to be an actress. I'm a very bad actress. My plans were to be a Director.
posted by
Jenasis
on December 28, 2006 at 10:32 AM
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And as far as original sin is concerned, I was only six years old when my parents divorced, encouraged by their church councilor, who was obviously an ignorant meddler.
posted by
Jenasis
on December 28, 2006 at 10:30 AM
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I think I've always known inside that I could not trust a church that has gone astray. As it turns out, I've learned well, that the gathering of loved ones at the exclusion of the most important and the best of them, is a gathering of vicious wolves competing for control over the innocent. The church has, over the years, become a place of brainwashing and exclusion, violence and judgement, a place where those who would love, learn instead to be killers, stirred to what they call a righteous wrath, who's rally call is made by a leader who has not written the book, nor who has designed the virtues studied therein.
But the music was very nice.
posted by
Jenasis
on December 28, 2006 at 10:27 AM
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