"WillStG" wrote in message
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Hey, you're giving a sermon right here, ain't ya?
You'll fit right in.

Nah, I don't think I preach. I don't think I do anything but bring forward
my gut reactions to these threads. My uncle, who was previously the
Inspector General of all SAC installations had a major stroke, but I
continued to tell my dad that his brother was more than equal to the
situation, and after 6 weeks of coma like subsistence, came out of it and
proceeded to exceed all the doctor's expectations. Do I take credit for
that? NO. I just knew my uncle's resolve and knew that there was no
situation that he wouldn't be able to work his way out of. The doctors are
amazed at his recovery. I am not. Were I to take credit for his
improvement then perhaps I would be preaching.

I'm the youngest of the family that fought the war in WWII and it's
offspring. I have no doubts about my elders and their resolve. I have no
doubts about their ability to face their maker in any manner they choose. I
have not doubts about my facing my maker. Being alive, I know that I will
be dead. That I am still alive is a miracle in and of itself.

The worst that happens to me is I'm wrong and then I'm simply wrong.
Whatever happens afterwards is up to someone else than me. Most religion
based people seem to think that they can have an effect on the outcome.
They can't. Once someone realizes that, it's up to them and that's what
having religion is all about.

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

"Roger W. Norman"

I'm not answering for George. As George Carlin said, organized
religion is
responsible for some 197,000,000 deaths since the inception of
Christianity.

Enough said?

And as I said, as all of human civilization has been based on religion
that's a _bull****_ way to indict Christianity, or religion in general.

I mean if you want to go down that road how about Atheism being
responsible for the death by mass murder and genocide of over 300 Million
people in the 20th Century? Maybe George Carlin would like claim as an
atheist
or nihilist responsibility for the brutality of the State Atheism of Mao,
Stalin, Pol Pot or Kim Il Sung?

And secular civilization is a relatively new phenomena, but if you
want to
evaluate based on more recent history would you like to argue the French
Revolution for example was more humane and less bloody than the religious
based
"Glorious Revolution" in England? Or should people who beleive in Atlantis
and
Lemuria be responsible for the Nazis killing 6 million Jews? (the Nazi
leadership had a religious beleif that "The Aryan Race" were pure
descendents
of Atlantian survivors).

It's all weak reasoning Roger.

I find nothing wrong with being religious, just something wrong with
HAVING
religion, particularly religion that allows one to specificy that others
are
wrong, or others are so different that they don't deserve the grace of
god.
If one places the onus on me to be religious based on their precepts, then
either I'm going to hell with their help, or I'm simply a man that has my
own
ideas about what religion consists of, and I have my own method of
meeting my god. Am I religious?

Well if you are meeting God personally it doesn't really matter much
what
people say about your faith, does it? What others think only matters when
you
are looking for approval, or if you beleive a relationship with a
particular
person or institution is needed for personal growth or to gain God's
approval.
Why does it matter to you what "The Church" has to say if you're sure of
where
you stand with the Allmighty? I mean it ain't Protestantism unless you can
start your own denomination.
Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits