Re: not playing so nice

Please. This really points back to my earlier statement about people defining
everyone else's experience in terms of their own. I'm obviously not going to
question the inadequacy of you childhood faith. There may even have been
something about it that was pretty dysfunctional -- so you may have been making
a moral decision to abandon it.

But your reasoning works like this, essentially: Because my faith was nonsense,
so is everyone else's.

Most of the people I know who believe that Christ was the only begotten son of
an invisible God have pretty intensely personal reasons for that belief.
They're not anyone's "suckers."

You should probably note, too, that the harshest critique of religion,
historically, has always come from within religion itself. That whole prophet
thing, you know.

At any rate, the sooner you understand that you really don't know what's going
on in someone else's head, the sooner you'll let go of a lot of the anger and
suffering you inflict upon yourself, probably on a regular basis.

As for my part -- well, if you want to torture yourself, that's really your
business. I've done my job telling you that you don't have to and really have
no reason to.

Jim

tina carson wrote:

> "You have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything"
> -Aaron Tippin

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Received on Fri Aug 8 08:24:12 2003