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From: pat@ih1ap.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Views on Religions
Message-ID: <151@ih1ap.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 09:13:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  2 09:13:11 1983
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Not knowing what to call myself, I choose "observer".

What bothers me about all religions is they always exclude instead
of including people. Each separate religious order has either
Scripture based or Pope based laws which ultimately divide all people
into classes. Yet science seems to search for universal understanding
that provides a basis for all things. This exclusion makes
religions hipocritical of their own beliefs.

There is also a strong brainwashing effects of religion. Catholics,
of which I was raised, place their children in sunday school at
a young age and teach the Catholic view. This view is usually one
of why it is so neat to be Catholic. If you bear with me I will try
and give an example:

I recently married a divorced Catholic with an 11 year old daughter
which attends a Catholic grade school. First, statements such as
"I glad your Catholic or I wouldn't want to live with you!" came
from the 11 year old. When we went to a Methodist to be married he
explained that if we continue to participate in the Catholic
Sacrements, we are fooling ourselves. In the eyes of the Church, we
were not married and living in sin. I could go on but I think
I have made my point.

Patrick A. Fargo
Married Again - forever?
BTL -IH