Replies to post #53376 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Lane Hall-Witt]

OT

what you point out shows the duplicity and demogoguing(sp) nature so many have.

Perhaps, but what concerns me personally is when our ideological and political positions become so dominant in our lives that we sacrifice our spirituality and our sense of moral judgment to mere partisan expediency. I stopped going to church almost 20 years ago, while in college, because church felt like a political rally followed by a coffee hour. It was a liberal church that was more concerned with political causes than with the spiritual mysteries or the cultivation of community in faith. It nurtured a cult of contented self-righteousness and defied all that the Bible has to say about the humility and longing that everyone should derive from their own personal sense of sinfulness and distance from the divine.

In this day, there are too many opportunities to celebrate our own worldly achievements and to congratulate ourselves for our own personal virtue. It disgusts me when I see our religious institutions encouraging, rather than questioning, this cult of worldly self-aggrandizement.

Because this is OT, I'll say not more about all of this on the No Politics thread -- just thought it was important to clarify my motives regarding the earlier, pre-market post.