> gMoney wrote: > Your QED premature :) DOH! It's not my fault! You were talking about the ... ah, never mind. Back to the topic.
I get your point that churches can be good for people and/or do good things. That's true because the basis of church is spirituality. That is, the philosophical problem that has plagued mankind since He became self aware is the question, why are we here? Gnosticism, or the quest for The Truth, pursues that answer. Christianity delivers that answer, but Christian Religion takes it one step farther: it asks you to forsake all other pursuits. So let's talk about exclusion. It's not a bad thing. Professional baseball, heck little league, is exclusionary. That's ok because not everyone is talented at sports and baseball. Spirituality, on the other hand, is common to all humans that are self aware. Religion, and therefore every Christian church, asks you to halt your exploration of spirituality in favor of their answers. In return for fellowship, etc the price the Church extracts from you is your compliance to their religion. Should you deviate, you are excluded. That's the part that's wrong. Exploration of spirituality is a higher calling, religion is the lowest common denominator; a brainwashing technique used to control the other evil aspects of people's nature. Thus the dual nature of religion: if it keeps you from killin' it's a good thing. It's my opinion of course, but anyone who's intellectually curious will quickly out grow religion because it's a dead end. It's process for process-sake. I hate process! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221717 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
