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Freedom of religion.

Posted: May 8, 2010

This country was founded on the needs of free women and men to practice the religion of choice.

I find it disturbing that it is assumed on this thread, and generally in the USA that everyone follows Christian practice.

And for all you Bible quoters, do you ever quote the Gospel of Mary and other Gospels suppressed by the "church" ?

Or just the words of your overbearing patriarchs?

P.S. God is neither male nor female.

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Neither? ... or both? - :-) NM

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nm

G-d is G-d - J-Princess

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I agree that G-d is not a male or female, just G-d. Since I'm Jewish - I'm not familiar with the "other gospels" that may have been supressed. I stick to the OT.

Why do you leave out the "o" in God? - JustCurious

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It's like you are censoring a swear word.

Judaism - Faithless

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Judaism does not prohibit writing the Name of God per se; it prohibits only erasing or defacing a Name of God. However, observant Jews avoid writing any Name of God casually because of the risk that the written Name might later be defaced, obliterated or destroyed accidentally or by one who does not know better.

Everything belongs to God - fickle finger of fate

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Some Christians tend to polarize everything - black and white, God or the Devil, good and bad. God made all the shades in between because everything serves his purpose. To God its all good because its all his creation. Its people that discriminate and judge and rant and blame.

If God creates someone to be a loner, and to seek their own spiritual path, that is what he meant for them to be and do. To claim that person is not worthy of salvation or any relationship with God simply because they don't follow YOUR beliefs or attend YOUR church is the ultimate conceit.

Everything you have is by the grace of God - your health, the people in your life, your job, the food in your refrigerator. What a shame people can't focus on what they have to be grateful for instead of what's wrong with the other guy.

Freedom of religion. - Maple Grandma

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Well said!

Thank-you.

Let me see if I understand you. SM - BornAgainMT

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Everything is of God, God is good, so nothing is "wrong" or "bad," there are just shades of gray...

The problem with your theory is free will. God gave humankind free will. God is the creator and then He gave His creation over to us. He gave us dominion over His creation. Humankind in our misuse of our God-given free will created the "shades of gray."

God gave us free will hoping we would choose to worship Him, take care of His creation, and live in His perfect world. Instead, we messed up and we continue to mess up. It's called sin.

I agree that every good thing we have is by the infinite grace of God. Unfortunately, a lot of times we forget that (darn that free will!) and then that's when we have to deal with the consequences -- the bad things.

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