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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: Re: Replies to Ken (morality and religion)
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Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 23:00:48 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 28 23:00:48 1984
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>> Face it. God doesn't want us all to be Christians, or Catholics, or Jews,
>> or Zen Buddists. God wants us to be people. The political beauracracies of
>> the organized religions all want us to be members of their organized
>> religions because they can then control and modify our behavior to fit
>> their uses. They want us to conform, because they want us to do it their
>> way, not God's way. My biggest complaint with the Bible is that it is a
>> work that has been modified through time by those in power to assist them
>> in keeping power and augmenting it. It has been mis-quoted, taken out of
>> context, used, defiled, and ignored all in the name of power. I don't need
>> someone telling me what my God wants of me or how to run my life, my God
>> tells me directly. The idea is to learn to listen to the voice of God that
>> is inside you rather than the voices of the pulpits that are trying to tell
>> you that an infinite and all-powerful being needs to have self-appointed
>> representatives interpret what they think He meant (seriously, did you God
>> tell you that this person was His personal representative to you because He
>> was too busy to deal with you directly? Do you really want to worship
>> someone who is too busy for you?)...

>> NOT happy k

>> From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach

BRAVO, Chuq.  Suscinctly--and tolerantly--put!!  

Intolerance is hard to deal with.  One is tempted to respond in kind.
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