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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (8687)	3/15/2001 3:35:37 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"They expected me to check in my brains at the church door and pick up a box of crayons." Of course you don't mean that literally. In what way were you encourage not to think or play dumb? "The above mentioned beliefs went way beyond the limits of what I considered reasonable." Obviously way over the line for you. What do you consider reasonable?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (8687)	3/15/2001 4:10:36 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"I was a part of a Pentacostal church for three years." But your not bitter are you? Fundamentalism has become a catch all phrase that people pour their fears and ignorance into as you have just demonstrated so well for us. I'm very sorry you had a bad "experience" at the Pentecostal church. I suspect you don't even have the foggiest notion of what the "fundamentals" of the Christian faith entail. Your skewed notion of what is really meant by the phrase "the bible is literally true" tells me that immediately. It's so much easier to throw stones at something, than to put in the effort required to understand it, much less learn how to spell something you claim to have been associated with for three years. One usually assumes the presence of a brain before it can be checked, but up to this point, you have provided scant evidence of that. I am not a Pentecostal, but I am a Christian, one who holds it's fundamental beliefs to be true. None of the things you mentioned, apart from the belief that the bible is true, (which you characterized incorrectly), are a necessary part of what it means to believe in the fundamentals of the Christian faith. I have to go out for a bit. Have a good day. Greg

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (8687)	3/15/2001 4:25:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

They expected me to check in my brains at the church door and pick up a box of crayons. I think that some organized religions contribute mightily to the impression that you have to check your brains at the door. I don't know how Catholics are raised now, but my religious training consisted of memorizing the Baltimore Catechism. I had this bad habit of asking "why?" regarding the answer I had duly memorized and always got back that special glare that only a nun can give or the authoritarian "because the Church says so." I concluded from that experience, while I was still very young, correctly or not, that you have to be dull witted to be religious. Those early impressions tend to stick, particularly if they're not firmly contradicted by subsequent experiences. Karen