The joy of the "Ingrown-Toenail" Christians (Bible literalists who are Bible-ignorant), escapes my ken.
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Ramadan, a month of fasting for the Islamic faith, begins tonight. May your Ramadan be blessed.
AND AS A SHORTCUT, I add my final comment to this thread EXPLAINING what I was going through (literally FOR YEARS), that got me so angry and lashing out at the WRONG TARGETS. I seek to relax from that now:
2. EXAMPLE TWO is from the most previous posting, http://theweathercontinues.blogspot.mx/2014/06/you-may-be-religious-scientist-if.html. And the addition to it occurred AFTER I had emailed it to my list of 500, so I will re-post the exchange in its entirety, showing how I was ROPED n' TIED (metaphorically), and soon came to my senses:
Scott Kenan shared Humans of New York's photo.
"I've been a deep believer my whole life. 18 years as a Southern Baptist. More than 40 years as a mainline Protestant. I'm an ordained pastor. But it's just stopped making sense to me. You see people doing terrible things in the name of religion, and you think: 'Those people believe just as strongly as I do. They're just as convinced as I am.' And it just doesn't make sense anymore. It doesn't make sense to believe in a God that dabbles in people's lives. If a plane crashes, and one person survives, everyone thanks God. They say: 'God had a purpose for that person. God saved her for a reason!' Do we not realize how cruel that is? Do we not realize how cruel it is to say that if God had a purpose for that person, he also had a purpose in killing everyone else on that plane? And a purpose in starving millions of children? A purpose in slavery and genocide? For every time you say that there's a purpose behind one person's success, you invalidate billions of people. You say there is a purpose to their suffering. And that's just cruel."
I'm still in the phase of having some discord in my life -- LOL!!!
An Angry Vagina (same thing).
>>> ADDED @ 10:05 PM, CDT -- LOL!!!:
OK, this is long enough!!!
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