Hi Charles,
Exactly my thoughts. It is not so much organized religion or
Christianity itself that is the problem. Often it is how people recieve
it, what they take from the message, that becomes the real issue. Since
we have all different backgrounds, different personalities, we all may
get something different from the same message. For some people religion
improves there lives, molds them into better people, and for some it is
like a mental poison. Especially, when they go to extremes like refusing
to eat deviled eggs because it has the word devil in it.
We also need to remember people don't just warp or twist religion, but
warp and twist other ideas as well into something else than they were
intended for. For instance over the passed 50 years or so the American
media has told us all the evils of Communism. What we need to realize is
what we think of as Communism such as the USSR was an absolute
perversion of Carl Marx's ideas and dream for a Communist society. When
you go back and read what Carl Marx actually wrote it becomes painfully
clear that neither the Chinese or Soviet governments really stuck to
true Communist beliefs or idealism. In the end men like Joseph Stallen
bent, twisted, and warped Marxist doctrine into whatever form they wanted.
Bottom line, ideas are not the problem. It is what we do with them, if
we change them, mold them, or bend them into something other than they
were intended for. Ideas and religious beliefs are what we make of them.
weather it be for good or for evil.
Charles Rivard wrote:
It's not organized religion that I'm against. It's the behavior and
opinions of some of the people.
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