Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ih1ap.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!ih1ap!pat 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 Article-I.D.: ih1ap.151 Posted: Thu Jun 2 09:13:11 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jun-83 11:52:40 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 27 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