Board:   [DoveNet] Religious Discussion/Debate/Evangelism
Subject: Spirituality
From:    Arelor
Date:    Tue Jun 30, 2020 05:28

@VIA: PALANT
  Re: Spirituality
  By: Grasshopper to Moondog on Tue Jun 30 2020 01:00 am

 > Hello Moondog,
 >
 >  > Could youplease elaborate?  What have you witnessed to support this?  I'm curious as to how you've reached this conclusion.
 >
 > Let me try to answer you. I was a devout Catholic for many, many years. I listened with my heart at the teachings that were given to me in Catechism. I listened with
 > heart at what the Priest read for the gospel and then the homily. As I grew older I became disheartened at what I saw in the majority of the people and yes, sometimes
 > the Priest himself. I found that for most the words were hollow. Everyone listened but most did not do what was just spoken
 > in the gospel. I wanted to shout hypocrites duringmass. I saw so many as just "whited sepluchers". I am not saying everyone in the church was like that but
 > it did seem to be almost all.  The getting angry because someone is driving too slow to get out of the church parking lot. Or purposefully cuttingsomeone off in the
 > church parking lot because someone's time is more valuable than someone elses. At one time, the Priest himself stated he would try to make the mass shorter so everyon
 > can get home and watch the football game.  A "football
 > game"really? That is more important than hearing the word of God? I have seen these things play out in so many different ways through out my life that I finally deci
 > it was enough.

You know, you have reminded me of a collaborator from Opus we used to have.Very hardcore believer, or so you would think. He was a lying bastard. He would betray,
backstab, lie as to make other people feel bad, lie as to damage the reputation of other people. My (ex)boss once brought the subject to him, and what he did was to
answer somethi g like "Flesh is weak, only God gets to judge me."

So damn wrong man. To claim you believe and then trash it away like that. I am sure the pityful bastard thinks he can sin to his heart's content and then make it right
by confessing five minutes later.

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