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From: alien@gcc-bill.ARPA (Alien Wells)
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Subject: Re: Someone else's article -- worth reading!!!!
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 13:53:04 EST
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>In article <315@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> scott@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Scott Deerwester) writes:
>Some decades ago while in highschool I was given a book by my parents titled
>something like "What Others Believe" I think by Zondorvon Press.  Not only
>did it warn me about the Mormon church but had a chapter on that evil
>institution the Catholic Church.  It showed how Catholics are so misguided
>in that as every year goes by they tend to worship Mary more and more and
>Jesus less and less.  Another shocking "truth" was that they don't even read
>the REAL Bible (The King James Version) but instead thier church has seen
>fit to invent its own version of God's word.
>
>Being the self-righteous dedicated Church of the Nazaerene member that I was
>...

I also grew up in the Church of the Nazarene, and I remember a brochure that
I saw which was (I believe) printed by the Nazarene Publishing House.  It told
about the horrors of masturbation (a recent topic of interest on the net) and
how to prevent your children from masturbating.  Some of its recommendations
were:
	- never let your child have any time to himself
	- don't let him get enough sleep, so he will fall asleep immediately

On the other hand, one must keep in mind that some churches, and the Church
of the Nazarene in particular, have very little in the way of central control
and you can hardly denounce the whole religion on the basis of things like
this.  In travelling, I have seen Nazarene churches which seemed almost like
Southern Babtists to some like Methodists to some churches which were down-right
Charismatic.  The central church's authority is very small, and the individual
churches vary a lot based on the area and congregation.  The fact that the
congregations choose thier own pastor probably re-inforces this.

But I digress.  My thanks to Scott for some very good thoughts.

					Alien