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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (79685)	5/23/2000 6:07:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I CANNOT speak for X; I know her only through her postings and I have not read all of them so whatever I say must be limited and not encompassing all of who she is. However, I do think that you were too critical. Other people's assessments of a person's goodness can be so critically flawed by lack of information. I know what you mean about the people who proclaim themselves to be good; OTOH, keep in mind the whited sepulchre. I have personally encountered many people who do not subscribe to any religion, yet their goodness in their lives is a wonder. It is not necessary to believe in a God of any sort to live in a way that is honest, unsparing of the self, and kindly generous while truthful. I honor these people and am grateful that they are in the world with me. As I have posted here before, I believe in a God. I grew up in Catholicism and find the ritual comforting, but I do not embrace the theology. Nonetheless, the mysticism--which joins with that of Buddhism and all the great religions--is mine as well, for which I thank God. I have always been perplexed by the people who think that God had mistreated them or let them down. Is God supposed to be an errand boy to make one's wishes happen? When I pray, as I do all the time, I pray for insight and strength to understand and to cope and to be of use and help. Anything else seems to me to be wishing on a star.