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doodleboodle

09/05/05 4:59 PM

#2698 RE: KovuLK #2694

Response to KovuLK. Actually, I am leaning toward the Buddist "religion". Several of my friends have already moved from being christian (by birth) or jewish (by birth) to becoming Buddist because they are sick of the conservative religious right. Basically, ANYTHING (except Islam) to get away from the right wing christians. Right wing (conservative) christians usually succeed in driving the moderate christians away.

One more thing concerning the word "rabbi". My wife is a jew (no-practising of course). She says the word "rabbi" means teacher and those who followed Christ called him "rabbi". Spiritual? Leave me to one side for a moment. My wife's mother came from Poland and they were NOT rich. In 1938, knowing what Hitler intended, they scraped together enough money to send the youngest daughter (my wife's mother) to the US to live with relatives but they didn't have enough for the other 2 daughters or the 3 sons. Of course, Jews do not consider Christ was the Messiah so they had to rely on the God of Abraham to deliver them as He did in the early book of fairy stories (the Old Testament). Well, guess what? HE didn't. My wife's sisters, brothers, mother, father, uncles, aunts, etc, ALL died in one of three concentration camps. Hey! Maybe if they were spiritual and trusted the christan cult leader, HE would have saved them! Still, as you say, there are more spiritual things to consider than being led into into a gas chamber, slaughtered and shoved in ovens 10 at a time. In the after-life which Christ has promised, if they converted just before they sucked in the last whiff of gas, they can all sit around telling each other, "How wonderful it is here in heaven and how they had wished the Nazi's had gassed them sooner."

My friend, carry on thinking about you "spiritual" religion which has more blood on it's hands than the Nazi's ever had. Try thinking about the last several hundred years and how many kids were molested by "spiritual" clergy. It didn't start happening in 1990. Above all, thank your God that you were born (or moved to) a big, fat, wealthy country were you can live in complacency for all your "3 score years and ten", pontificating about the "Good news which Jesus brings", without worrying that famine is just around the corner or you have to watch your children dying from starvation or some dreadful disease which you cannot afford to treat.