Re: Ramblings of Religion
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:13:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Don't
> be irritated if I thank God for my accomplishments, it's not really a
> matter of denying myself any amount of pride or joy, but a way of
> appreciating the fact that I had the opportunity, and that I am who I
> am, that I am here, and that I can have the pleasure of seeing what I
> have done. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Sure,
> religion can be a crutch you use when your balance seems off, or it
can
> be a check for you to use when you think you've got the balance down.
> And it can be a lot of other things, too. So, what do we know?
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> "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." --H.D. Thoreau
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Erin-
You make a good point. It's just that I have noticed that some people
short change themselves by saying everything that they have done great
is God's responsibility and not their own. When I read The Fountain
Head by Ayne Rand she shows that people have a tendency to underate
themselves instead of being proud of what they have done and I have
noticed that this is often the case. Obviously you are proud of things
you have done and you also believe that God is part of it and I can
respect that. I just think that pride is not a sin but a virtue.
-Liz Friedman
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