Good morning, Del!
If you all would stay up an hour later and I would get up an hour earlier, we could meet in the middle. As it is, I always arrive when everyone has gone home. I have to read the graffiti left scrawled on the walls from the night before while I wash the glasses and talk to myself.
Did you mean to say that you would like Christians to accept that YOU believe Christianity is mythology? If you ask them to "recognize their beliefs as mythology", you ask them to betray their beliefs. Which is no better than them imposing the beliefs on you. A situation from which it seems the government has protected you fairly well.
Why is a group of Christians any different from a group of environmentalists(e.g.)when they attempt to achieve a political goal consistent with their moral convictions? What distinguishes that group from any other PAC? Don't most action groups spring from their own "moral" convictions-even if it's only that they deserve power and money?
Moving on to lighter topics-eye gouging--That was Dallas,all right, but the sisters came from another state. They just did the dirty deed here in some poor woman's home. Who do you suppose is really talking to these people, telling them to do these things? Do they all hear these voices, or just a leader? This wasn't nearly as much fun as the group caught driving around stark naked a couple of years ago. I forget why God told them to do it, but it made for much more stimulating dinner conversation.
When I was a probation officer, working with teenage girls, I had an actual case of folie a deux. THe parents of a case shared a very well-defined and highly developed paranoid delusion. At 22, I wasn't well-equipped to deal with this, and got pretty sucked into the whole thing for a while. It was an incredible experience, and it left me with the knowledge that reality isn't always what it seems and it can be very difficult to recognize the deception. |
