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Well as stated belief/faith/spirituality have littel to do with churches and organised religion.
Faith is a useful human thing - when the shit is REALLY bad sometimes theres not much left to do except pray. People with faith find that easier anf ind a sort of solace in prayer.
Right wing churches just USE religion as a cover for their bigotry - when one of their members says 'God hates faggots' what they are really saying is 'I hate faggots - but I dont want to seem prjudiced so I am hiding bwehind the bible'
To be fair people often hide their own prejudicices and bigotry behind other things such as 'corporate culture' or even 'science' at times - they try to find things in science or domestic law or even attitudes of the general population to back up their own bigotted feelings and justify them. Thats not unique to Christians.
In fact having heard a supposed Christian saying stuff like 'God hates gays' I could only smile and think 'not as much as he hates you for twisting his words and usupring his perogatives'
Someone like that is in effect saying 'I know better than God and can speak on his behalf'
Look at what the bible shows - did jesus spend his time with the politicians, the worthies and the ultra-orthodox ? No - he spent his time with those who were considered outcast by the society of their time.
I rather suspect if he were around today some of these ultra right wing religionists would be in for a shock when he dissed them big time.
Mel
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There are some people who say I have never done anything wrong in my life - of course they only say that behind my back
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