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Originally Posted by Taco  Ok. Be a baby if it makes you happy. But I enough about Christians to know fear of God is a HUGE part of their relationship to God. Once upon a time, I was even one of the leaders of the campus ministry at my University...led programs and everything.
I'm not insulting you to point out that very basic truth. You can't read the Bible as tell me God doesn't use intimidation and threat of force as primary means of gaining compliance from his flock.
You can play "poor sensitive me" if you want. or you can be honest.
Your choice. | ahhhh a burned out Christian. Nuff said. There's hope if you can get through it but I know how hanging on to those resentments can be so comforting.
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"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
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