Jpprater

Jpprater wrote:
any bitterness I could possibly feel about religion and my lack there of is FAR offset by the joy I received when I stopped believing I was in a permanent state of sin, since birth, simply because I’m a human.

You’re right, it’s religion that people are divorced from and angry and bitter towards, not God, who we see as a f…[Read more]

But… didn’t you know?  God works in mysterious ways… so presto changeo… whatever can’t be explained with common english words is just our lack of understanding…

A quote about the white missionaries in Africa, attributed to Desmond Tutu:

“They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible.”