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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grandk who wrote (19384)	3/12/2005 10:57:04 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 28931

Amen.

To: Grandk who wrote (19384)	3/12/2005 11:49:55 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<If all you ever look for is the devil, he is all you are going to find> How true. There should be elevation in all religion and there can be. Certainly, those that believe in their religions strongly feel elevated. It seems that ecstatic conversion is an easy out, though, and that there should be some personal effort and humility in enlightenment. There should also be contrition. I think forgiveness without contrition is a dangerous mix. My brother's first wife was a Fundamentalist. It appealed to her because she was always making big mistakes she was willing to repeat and needed the carte blanche. She was judgemental and was convinced that she was right. We had this very frank discussion (one that I've had with other fundamentalists) and she agreed that if Charlie Manson or Jeffry Dahmer had a Born Again experience, that they'd be ahead of me in line to Heaven. In fact, I was going to Hell for the things that I felt were universals (many of them Buddhist-like and respectful of the "many paths" which I suspect is closer to any reality that I could imagine). Karma didn't matter. No baggage from any deed or set of deeds. God didn't seem to care that you might be a big a-hole one minute, and one of his divine followers the next. Great.