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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jane Hafker who wrote (18867)	3/18/1998 11:46:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Jane, please don't go!!! I am just worried about your soul. I think you may have absorbed some brainwashing from people who will do you harm. And I am just a little worried about your reading comprehension abilities. The Coalition for Religious Freedom was run by the Reverend Moon, you see: [Editor's Note: As an example of the extent to which men like Hal Lindsey will go in the pursuit of furthering the ecumenical social gospel, Lindsey actually held a position with Sun Myung Moon's now defunct Coalition for Religious Freedom (CRF). (Moon is the founder of the Unification Church and the self-proclaimed Messiah to the world.) Other so-called evangelicals that served with Lindsey at CRF as executive committee and/or advisory board members were Tim LaHaye (CRF's paid chairman!), Don Wildmon (founder and president of the social activist American Family Association), Paul Crouch (TBN's infamous founder), Marlin Maddoux (Point Of View nationwide radio talk show host), charismatics James Robison and Jimmy Swaggart, and D. James Kennedy (author and pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)--an agenda of social activism certainly makes for strange ecumenical bedfellows! (One has to wonder if Hal Lindsey's fondness for ecumenical compromise has anything to do with his unscriptural divorce and remarriage?)] Some of these guys aren't very nice, Jane!!! Wasn't it Jimmy Swaggart who was caught with a prostitute? You see, Jane, you may think I am a pagan, but what you mean by that and what I mean are two different things. I am a very nice middle-aged married woman with a Catholic husband and a happy and healthy teenaged daughter. I don't do any strange rituals at all, and I have never harmed an animal or a baby. I love animals and babies!!! I believe that people who make very stringent rules for themselves, or dive headlong into severe religions are afraid of their own human nature, or have some compulsion and hope that if they live in a world with a lot of strict rules, they will be able to control themselves. But they usually don't, because what they really needed was treatment for their emotional problems, not religion. That is one of the reasons why so many priests end up being arrested for molesting children!!! I have never heard of any nice pagan men being arrested for anything at all. And what about that evangelical preacher in Florida who just got arrested for hiring someone to kill his wife so he could go live with his girlfriend? I think it you back away from all this stuff you will see that although there are many nice Christian people, the more extreme they are, the more likely they are to be emotionally ill in some way. Christine