Yowie wrote:
> Rod wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Look, I'll play it straight from the chest here. I don't believe in
>> god, I did once and found myself to be misled and screwed up. I do
>> believe there is something out there; thiongs going on that can't be
>> explained. People seeing, for lack of a better term, "ghosts", and
>> some hard evidence captured to sup****t this. Is their another world
>> beyond this life ? yea, I'd like to think so, but what I hope for does
>> have any bearing on reality, but that doesn't mean I'll accept with
>> any amount of grace Christianity's beliefs. We are just at the edge of
>> trying to find the truth, and unless science enters in an participates
>> in the search we will all only learn what the amateur researchers
>> find.
>
> I'm sorry that you felt misled and screwed up by Christianity. In part,
I
> can relate, as I left the pentecostal charismatic movement for hard
athiesm
> as I just couldnt stand the hypocrisy and BS that was being preached &
> practiced there. Its been a winding path back, but my 'beef' so to speak
> wasn't with God but with some Christians. This is why I explored Wicca
andl
> earnt alot, and am now more along the Quaker path.
Sadly, my beef is with the absence of the god of christianity and his
people. All the suffering and little getting done to stop it.
>
> Whilst Quakerism was based on Christianity, and hte majority of Quakers
are
> Christian, the liberal side of Quakerism also has athiests, thiests
(those
> who believe in God but not much else), Deists (those wo believe that a
> Creator God made the world but is no longer involved in its day day to
> afffairs) and even Wiccans.
>
> If you wanted to become a Quaker, you wouldn't need to accept any
Christian
> teachings, although perhaps you might end up seeing that some Christian
> beliefs are simply common sense and/or universal in nature, and
shouldn't
> just be rejected simply because they also have the "Christian" label.
>
> Yowie
>
>
I want to understand quaker ideals and beliefs. I'm up to my ears
sick of christianity and the excuses it makes for ignoring the poor
and helpless.
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