tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post3856476897533085572..comments2024-03-12T04:51:46.468-05:00Comments on Blue Gal: Christians? Happy?Fran / Blue Galhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18293627981248346055noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-24028247642468617942007-08-02T14:56:00.000-05:002007-08-02T14:56:00.000-05:00me, i have a t-shirt that says religion is for tho...me, i have a t-shirt that says religion is for those afraid of hell.<BR/>spirituality is for those that have been there.( i think hell is here and we usually bring it on ourselves or others)<BR/><BR/>i respect all religions and have friends and aquaintances of all beliefs ,that harm none(well as little as is possible)<BR/><BR/>i'm ecclectic, a happy little(raised catholic) pagan i suppose ,that embraces all tenents that help me to be a better person and to try to make my road and those i meet along my journey a bit eaiser, kinder and give smiles while i'm learning as i live.<BR/><BR/>if i'm wrong, i'll find out after i pass on, till then, this works for me. : )Sherry Pasquarellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107407102753464356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983386.post-61569686797103441542007-08-02T11:43:00.000-05:002007-08-02T11:43:00.000-05:00Indeed, the reason I've become a recent convert to...Indeed, the reason I've become a recent convert to Christianity is that I have emerged from worship service with a smile on my face.<BR/><BR/>The Buddhist perspective is that without pain there cannot be progress. I heartily agree with that sentiment.<BR/><BR/>But to quote the Old Testament here, if I may, to everything there is a season. And when I was a Unitarian, I witnessed a lot of winter and not much summertime. God's ways are not our own and I'm okay with that. A religion based on the scientific process is doomed to fail. <BR/><BR/>There is no real perfection, nor will there ever be, so long as there is humankind. <BR/><BR/>I have to remind myself that in all my bluster, if I focus merely only the negative I'm ignoring how good life really can be...just as you've noticed on your travels to the beach.Comrade Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11393718048145784837noreply@blogger.com