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"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Guno צְבִי (06-30-2020)
Or as I said to my Mom, who was a devout Xtian and taught Sunday School, when I was 9 or 10: "Why would God make so many people and then have most of them go to hell because they didn't know about Jesus?" I've never gotten a satisfactory answer to that question, and therefore have found my own path to what I consider to be the Divine.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Doc Dutch (06-30-2020), Guno צְבִי (06-30-2020)
:~( How did you work past that?
I was raised Lutheran. Mom tried to soften the original sin blow by blaming it all on Adam and Eve but in the end it all boiled down to: You are a bad person and God is watching you and knows when you fuck up, so you better pray for forgiveness every single day. Bah.
Years later I had a bumper sticker that said "Born right the first time."
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Cypress (06-30-2020)
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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ThatOwlWoman (06-30-2020)
ThatOwlWoman (06-30-2020)
Guno צְבִי (06-30-2020)
ThatOwlWoman (06-30-2020)
You mean the books written by desert nomads over the course of a few thousand years? Prove I'm wrong. Prove the Bible is 100% accurate....despite what science says.
IMO, God created the Universe and set it up to create intelligent beings. We have brains; the expectation by God is that we should use them.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
ThatOwlWoman (06-30-2020)
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