On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Ricardo Aráoz <[email protected]> wrote: > If you ignore the 10% of your income going to the church (in older > times), and all the thousands of hours spent chanting silly songs, and > all the chances to get laid that you lost, and suffering a (supposedly) > virgin unmarried nonworking priest giving you advice over sex marriage > and work, and compulsively telling your sins to a priest, and........
If you take advantage of the church as more then the Sunday morning Fashion show you will experience many personal benefits. Last week I went to an interfaith Pay for World Peace service. Not a mass in my catholic church but a prayer service with Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, and Jewish members. When the service was over we adjourned to another room for discussion and refreshments. This is where it got interesting. Or you could help out at a soup kitchen where you are taken from your space to assist in an area of town that you would not consider going to. Hey why not have a Trivia Contest where proceeds are raised for a Parish school in a poor section of town. Maybe you want to help others in your faith through bible study learn more about what is written and how we interpret those words today. You could also just go to a Cursillo Weekend. You could go to confession. It is a personal growth step where you admit your own faults to someone else. >> ; whereas, if God does exist, the unbeliever loses infinite life. >> > If you compute all religions you get that the believer's chance to have > hit on the "right" religion is small.If you are for democracy and think > religious rule should be for the majority, then christians loose for > sure. Besides which if we make the big leap to admit the christian will > be right, then you have the fact that you don't get to go to heaven > automatically. I may be a believer and yet go to hell. So chances are > soooo small. --------------------------------------- Or "Thy will be done." -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
