Wish I could get that...londonkdsNovember 3 2003, 20:30:48 UTC
The delicious beauty of no knowing Of never knowing Of not being hemmed in by certainties.
It's weird, I think I got exposed to fundamentalist Christianity at too vulnerable a time. I'm always slightly afraid of eternal damnation, but it's the idea of eternal damnation for anyone who did good in the wrong God's name that still puts me utterly off Christianity.
I think I've got mental/spiritual claustrophobia , the second someone tells me this is the way it is, this is what's RIGHT, I start to feel closed in and run screaming ;o) I was also brought up in a very Christian household (although we didn't go in for eternal damnation). I started questioning it very early, starting with Why would the God of Peace tell Joan of Arc to kill all those people?. I actually got out of going to church when I was about 13 by arguing with my mum that sitting in church and not believing was actually blasphemous, I think she just gave up then.
but it's the idea of eternal damnation for anyone who did good in the wrong God's name oh yeah...I was watching a programe the other day on the power of prayer, where a group of Doctors had people from all religions around the world praying for people undergoing surgery in a controlled experiment. I couldn't believe it when several of the Christian groups complained that it wasn't really a proper experiment as only their prayers to God would actually work! I'm just glad
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Thanks Aliera :o) I've been thinking about this poem a lot lately but couldn't find it and then today I was digging around in an old file and there it was. I think no matter what's going on with me, it's still at the core of who I am, sometimes it just get hidden.
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HUGS back atcha :o)
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Of never knowing
Of not being hemmed in by certainties.
It's weird, I think I got exposed to fundamentalist Christianity at too vulnerable a time. I'm always slightly afraid of eternal damnation, but it's the idea of eternal damnation for anyone who did good in the wrong God's name that still puts me utterly off Christianity.
Was this you in Feb '91? Very good, if it was.
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but it's the idea of eternal damnation for anyone who did good in the wrong God's name oh yeah...I was watching a programe the other day on the power of prayer, where a group of Doctors had people from all religions around the world praying for people undergoing surgery in a controlled experiment. I couldn't believe it when several of the Christian groups complained that it wasn't really a proper experiment as only their prayers to God would actually work! I'm just glad ( ... )
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And first.
Being re-born with every intake of air
Re-creating myself
I love this bit.
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