Tag: organized religion
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November 06, 2007 09:54 PM EST --
I was born and raised a Catholic. I was baptized Catholic, First Communion at 6, Confirmation at 14, the whole nine yards. My grandparents even made sure I attended Catholic Schools. Yes, they did their . . .
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June 27, 2007 03:53 PM EDT --
Those of you who know me through my writings on Gather are aware that I am a fallen-away Catholic. Rather, a fallen-away believer period. Based on my up-bringing (Catholic) and career history . . .
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December 12, 2007 07:48 PM EST --
Organized religion has tended to leave me cold and uninspired. Forced attendance every Sunday for years at Temple did not exactly turn me on. From time to time I did enjoy hearing the often thoughtful . . .
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June 04, 2007 08:18 AM EDT --
If our gospel can be called “veiled” in any sense, it is such only for those who are headed toward destruction. Their unbelieving minds have been blinded by the god of the present age . . .
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November 26, 2008 10:08 PM EST --
These subjects come up so often in posts, i feel this explains so very much. sit back and enjoy the words of a truely inspired and genius man of our times.
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February 13, 2009 11:11 PM EST --
Well, I was correct in my first thoughts on this.
Every day the news carries more and more of this woman and her selfish, irresponsible ways and the Doctor who performs this procedure is showing he . . .
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April 28, 2009 01:21 AM EDT --
Well, I finally got credit for writing a post so fervent, by some peoples standards, that they ran away with their tails between their legs, it would seem!
I am writing this tongue-in-cheek . . .
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November 08, 2009 09:48 PM EST --
Over the centuries people who misunderstood or misinterpreted the Bible have done terrible things. The Bible has been misused to defend bloody crusades and tragic inquisitions; to support slavery, . . .
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May 21, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
Dedicated to my young friend Nathaniel:
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July 18, 2007 12:16 PM EDT --
As your fellow workers, we beg you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 Cor 6:1
Ok, this passage is ripped from context. But what an astounding statement! Paul clearly assumes . . .
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April 28, 2008 11:04 AM EDT --
HA! You thought this was going to be an article on how to be a Mormon! Wrong-O!
If you are Mormon, I want to know what you believe. I don't want to know what the church . . .
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November 26, 2008 10:15 PM EST --
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December 06, 2008 03:10 PM EST --
Those slaves whose masters are brothers in the faith must not take liberties with them on that account. They must perform their tasks even more faithfully, since those who will profit from their . . .
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March 24, 2009 12:31 PM EDT --
In the temple precincts he came upon people engaged in selling oxen, sheep and doves, and others seated changing coins. He made a [kind of] whip of chords and drove sheep and oxen alike out of . . .
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December 28, 2008 09:03 PM EST --
Not to knock religion...but to educate you, so you don't demean what faith really is.
I was born into the Episcopalian/Church of England faith and never even heard of "Born-Agains" till . . .
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April 17, 2009 11:50 PM EDT --
Being a person who was brought up in the Anglican (Episcopalian, Church of England) church, Sunday school, pagents and Episcopalian Academy, but who grew skeptical with age and accumulation of knowledge, . . .
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May 09, 2009 11:45 PM EDT --
I am tired of Right Wing Fanatics. They believe what they want fine, let them, but when they start to try to push their misguided thoughts onto me and keep poking at me like the little devils they are . . .
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June 03, 2009 10:05 PM EDT --
Thought you could take it in the form of song!
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January 28, 2009 10:22 PM EST --
Throughout time, men and women have looked to find meaning in and guidance for their lives. For over 500 years, tarot cards have provided one of the many ways to seek that guidance. With the seventy-eight . . .
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October 11, 2009 07:38 PM EDT --
All this division is quite apparent to the rest of us, but do the Conservatives and Religious Right even know from whence they came?
I uitilized Wiki for a definition of both Conservatism and Liberalism . . .
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