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Re: Religion, and the after effects.

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 01 Apr 20 8:03 AM | 42 view(s)
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The deployment of guilt and fear to corral them as little children has a rather opposite effect on many adults.

It takes some time to shake off resentment and simply to become indifferent, which is the real cure.

For me, a never-was-Catholic, I find the involvement of the Catholic Church in the history surrounding the end of Rome, and then again during the eleventh to seventeenth centuries, really rather fascinating. The arguments with the pagans are pretty interesting. The building of structure by Augustine. The idea of a Christian universe. The suppression of observed nature where it was in conflict. The mission to the Americas. It's not all good and not all bad, but you can see the growth of the organism as time passes from its gestation in the first century onwards. It's nearly always an important actor in the drama.

It's a shame they didn't figure out that forced obedience and the manipulation of little children was a really bad idea.




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Religion, and the after effects.
By: clo in ALEA
Tue, 31 Mar 20 4:45 PM 		Msg. 35141 of 54959

I was born into a Catholic family.
The oldest of four girls, we all attended parochial school.
Religion was drummed into us, fear & shame, with a sprinkle of a miracle stuck with me.

Heaven & hell the polar opposites, results of our behavior, depending if we made it to confession first.

But there was also limbo, a place for infants who weren't baptized. OMG can you imagine teaching children infants would be left in limbo forever, through no fault of their own...
Now you know why I rejected religion.

Living during these troubling times feels like limbo.
Through no fault of our own, we wait, wait till its safe to go out, safe to see loved ones, safe to believe this has passed.
I am grateful for this computer, that's its Spring & the days are lighter & warmer.
And I'm grateful for the people who share how they are living each day.
Stay safe people xox

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