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

To: Poet who wrote (21880)	8/14/2001 3:48:18 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I know all about them. My mother went to the Moody Bible Institute. She went to a tent revival with a friend who had a terribly ill child. It didn't help. The child died, the mother felt desolate. It was a very powerful thing for my mother. But that isn't why she lost her faith. She used to read the Bible a lot- and one day she was reading the bit about the jawbone of the ass and she just thought it was ridiculous. She struggled for a few years trying to get it back, but it was gone. It just seemed silly to her. Of course religion helped her a lot when she was young, growing up in the slums of Chicago- I think it was about all she had. As long as the religious don't try to do anything to those that don't believe as they do- I have no problem with them. I actually admire and respect the B'Hai and the Buddhists (something I have always said) and I enjoy Rumi a great deal. But there are so many Gods- and people want to make laws based on them, and do things to each other (rather horrible things, often) based on them, and it seems such an iffy proposition- to kill or hurt an actual person, in front of you, because of an idea. I don't get that. I hope I never do.