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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (289460)	5/27/2006 3:06:26 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572942

Yeah, sure. Look at Swaggart, Benn Hinn, etc. Worse than drugs, if you ask me. rotten.com A not-to-bright mother of a friend of mine probably gave this scumbag half her retirement every month! rotten.com aloha.net How many have DRUGS saved from the likes of THESE?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (289460)	5/28/2006 2:33:25 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

I know people too who get into a steady state of drug relapse, then AA and God until the next relapse. It's a way to transfer their addictions to something else while their mind and body recovers from the last one. Usually they have groups of friends and take turns relapsing while the others hover and pray until he's back in the fold, and then one of the others takes a turn as the black sheep. TP

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (289460)	6/3/2006 2:12:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

There is nothing about true religious faith that is remotely similar to a high obtained through narcotics. Given what goes on in this world and some of the crap that people have to live through, faith is hardly ever the "easy way out" like drugs are. On the contrary, there are religious cults where people are 'addicted' to the ministrations of a particular religious leader who professes to be a desciple of God. Humans are capable of all kinds of addictions.....rarely are any of them very good. Faith taken to the extreme where it becomes an addictive state after all is just one more addiction to add to the pile. You may not be that way but I have seen a number of people 'addicted' to their faith and it ain't pretty.