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Buxtehude
<p><em>"Atheist's complain that they don't have a holiday...but they do! They have April fools day!!!"</em></p>
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<p>Some gal, three times removed from me, posted this on her facebook page. It showed up on my page, for some gosh-darned reason. I guess she's some friend of the wife of my cousin. This wife "liked" the post. My cousin's wife. My cousin.</p>
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<p>Now, I've recently re-connected with my cousins. One is married to the ultra-evangelical wife, mentioned above. She doesn't work or have any job skills because her faith discourages it. I've enjoyed her, as a person, and find her delightful and poo-pooed my family's warnings about her. I even went to one of her church's twelve-steps support group events, just to explore what my cousin and his fundamentalist wife were doing with their lives. They were helping recovering addicts. Great! That's doing good! But then, many of the recover-ees recited homosexuality as an addiction they were recovering from, along with alcoholism and oh...crack cocaine. Etc. Uh. Ok.</p>
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<p>Anyway, I flew off the handle today and replied to her random friend's post (which I didn't think I could do. It appeared to post, but I'm not certain. She's not on my friend list)</p>
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<p><em>"Why do I have to read this typo-ridden and arrogant nonsense, from a Christian, no less? Blocked."</em></p>
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<p><em>And</em> then I blocked my cousin's wife. Shit. I really like my cousin! He's so lovely. I want to know him, his wife and his children. But I guess that's not going to work to well. She thinks I'm a fool. I'm pretty sure she'd consider a speedily fallen-away Catholic like me an atheist. It's a weird feeling when you realize a family member or friend sees you as a fool. Or lost to hellfire. Even during my most vehemently Catholic moments, I've never thought "Oh, you fools! I know better!" But when people asked me about faith stuff, I said I believed in God and described why.</p>
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<p>Arrogance.</p>
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<p>Which leads me to question my own arrogance.</p>
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<p>Hi!</p>
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<p>Bye!</p>
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airehead
<p>Those who know least tend to speak the most, and often at length.</p>
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<p>"...<b>nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions..."  S. Tepper</b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Just because one side of an argument is wrong, doesn't necessarily mean the other is right.  Merton</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Not every Christian is an ignorant jerk.  Nor is every Atheist, nor Muslim, etc, etc.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">As a Christian I have a boatload of questions, none of which have answers.  Are there</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Christians I don't like and am totally embarrassed by?  Oh heck yes.  Just as I am sure</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">I embarrass them.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">I am here to learn from others, all the knowledge and wisdom they want to share.  I soak it</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">all in.  I am not here to instruct or impart.  I am too fallible and too mortal.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">I have learned that often the issues that cause the greatest divides within and without the church</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">are usually man-made edicts or "interpretations."  Usually man tends to screw up where God already</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">had perfection.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Denominations tend to frustrate me as they often distract from God.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">just my .02.  Not trying to inflame.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">I totally hate the "If you love God, pass this on" emails.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Really?  Is God taking a tally of how many times I share your vapid email?  Really?</span></p>
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airehead
<p>I know, huh?  Some people.  lol. <br>
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Amen to that.   <smirk></p>
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