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Originally Posted by Catwoman
But this is not a god that insists you go to a building we call a church, that punishes you if you don't sit and pray, that will send you to hell if you blaspheme, that commands respect and idolisation and answers a prayer.
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You're talking about religion here. That's not what Jesus teaches.
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Your guilt is unecessary - you can have all the fantastic things you think you have found in god without the ritual, the rules, the rubbish I call religion.
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Exactly! That's religion. It's not a personal relationship with God. BIG difference. I have no guilt, I curse, I don't go to church (my husband does, but that's because he wants to, not because he feels he has to.), I have sex in other than missionary position, I don't confess to a priest, I don't walk around telling people they're going to hell. In short, I'm not religious.
But that doesn't mean I'm not Christian.
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Think about it. How can something so huge, so overwhelmingly spiritual, rely on ritual and guilt?
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It doesn't.
