Message #221801

[Sarah]

Hi Sarah,


How are you?

 Absonite was a total ass-clown. I have to admit I found some of the ideas in the Urantia stuff fascinating, like an episode of Star Trek is fascinating; athough obviously bogus, it was in some respects brilliant.

I still think there is strength in believing in a religious system, it makes your faith all the more unshakeable, otherwise you're just making it up as you go along. How much reassurance can be found in that when the dark-night of the soul falls upon you?

Some are strong enough not to need organized religion, but for the majority? I think they need something with tradition and authority behind it, to give them that strength, that faith, that hope. They need to believe in something larger then themselves and the sense of belonging that comes with shared beliefs and customs.

Calvin was the perfect example of what's wrong with the Christian-Right, so stereo-typical that if he were a character in a novel no-one would buy it.

I am saddened by how far modern american christianity has strayed from the real message, "Love thy neighbor." It seems they have adopted a new commandment, love thy neighbor, but only if he conforms to your moral standards and believes everything you do.

I agree with most ofd this, especially the  part about  Absonite being a total ass-clown.  To my view, he is simply yet another in a series of self-loathing Jews conditioned by society to think he must be something other than what he is.

Sarah