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To: KyrosL who wrote (53234)	3/12/2008 6:02:41 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 543198

and you substituted "Europe" where the web site refers to "Africa" Or "Israel" or "Russia." Pick 'em.

To: KyrosL who wrote (53234)	3/12/2008 6:34:37 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 543198

>>I guess you are right. However, if the church was white, and you substituted "Europe" where the web site refers to "Africa", I think people would have probably concluded it was racist. I am not very familiar with churches, having given up on religion after a clash with my elementary school religious studies teacher over the logistics of Noah's Ark.<< KyrosL - Since whites are not a minority group that has suffered oppression in this country, and still suffers from some level of discrimination and the cultural after-effects of it, we don't need that kind of church. By the way, I, too, gave up on religion early, after asking too many questions during a lesson on the Creation story in Primary. (Primary is a weekly after school thing for Mormon children.) The whole thing just didn't seem to add up, and I was trying to get some clarification. I'm not sure how philosophically penetrating my questions could have been, considering that I was only five, but they somehow drove the Primary teacher into a rage, and she ended up screaming, calling me a bunch of horrible things, including "spawn of the devil". The next week, I refused to get into the car when they came around to take me to Primary. I ran away and cried. My mother told the driver, who insisted "He has to go," that whatever they had done to me had obviously traumatized me, and I didn't bloody well have to go. And that was the end of my Mormonism. - Allen