On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Atheism is on the rise! Woo hoo! > > http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/ Why would this be comforting....?? > That said, I think I'm going to go with my family to a unitarian > church this weekend. My wife took them to a lutheran service last > week and my daughters enjoyed it, but they wanted me to go too. Just > can't see me going to a church where I have not a single shared belief. Suggest to them that religion is a private matter, and if they want to explore the Lutheran Faith, you'll support them 100%...but that doesn't mean you necessarily have to join them. (I have no idea how old your daughters are.....) > My wife and I took the "Belief Quiz" on beliefnet. Amaziningly > enough, I scored 100% match with non-theists, but surprisingly 70% > match with Liberal Quakers. Who knew I was a closet quaker. My wife > matched Liberal Christian Progressive....or something like that. I tend to share many beliefs with a lot of the major religions....I just don't buy into any of the human institutions they've constructed to garble those beliefs. The Catholic Church, with the Pope and all those bishops and blah blah blah...is a great example of "good, simple beliefs...run amok". -- Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows that the good guys lost ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291133 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
