Because they’re dumb. I’m sorry, they just are. Maybe dumb isn’t the right word but it’s the only one that comes to me right now.
They need a "higher power" to dictate their decisions, and IMO, it's because they don't want to speak for themselves.
Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens
Ahh, good ol' Connecticut. Get out of Fairfield and New Haven Counties, and it's basically the South with generic Eastern accents. Western MA, too, except throw heroin into the mix.
Because they’re dumb. I’m sorry, they just are. Maybe dumb isn’t the right word but it’s the only one that comes to me right now.
They don't see their church as the money-sucking machine it is. It is ruled by God. The government however, is a completely man-made contraption that transparently takes money from their paycheck.
On top of that, there are people that they can vote for shouting all the dribble they hear each Sunday.
They're involvement in their churches are entirely voluntarily activities, but they see government as compulsory. Also, and this might be a stretch, but the Roman gov't killed Jesus at the bequest of the Pharisees, so many of them see the government as an agent of evil.
People have a lot more influence on what their state, local, and federal governments do than they have on church doctrine defined 17 centuries ago. And calling their passive acceptance of the faith-based social norms they marinated in while growing up "voluntary activities" is, well, amusing.
Ahh, good ol' Connecticut. Get out of Fairfield and New Haven Counties, and it's basically the South with generic Eastern accents. Western MA, too, except throw heroin into the mix.
Good news: I did find an LGBT support group here, they have a center, and I will be hanging out there twice a week.
I also know not all Christians are jerks. Thinking of a woman who loves to hold my hand and give me tight hugs. Another woman gave me a code to Skirt Sports. Another woman gave me a makeup tutorial..
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Went to an LGBT support center tonight and hung out for a couple hours. Met some Episcopalians, and they are the exact opposite of what Kepler profiled there.
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Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar
An interesting article on the death penalty and Catholic teaching. Towards the end, the author comes out against a private citizen usurping the state's right of capital punishment. In one sense I can agree, but in the case whether its him or me and death is the final outcome, I would rather it be him, rather than me.
Anyway the article. The document "trail" is at the end.
If I felt like attending church again, I'll probably go with the Episcopalians. Liberal and very accepting.
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"One word frees us from the weight and pain of this life. That word is love."- Socrates Patreon for exclusive writing content Adventures With Amber Marie
An interesting article on the death penalty and Catholic teaching. Towards the end, the author comes out against a private citizen usurping the state's right of capital punishment. In one sense I can agree, but in the case whether its him or me and death is the final outcome, I would rather it be him, rather than me.
Anyway the article. The document "trail" is at the end.
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