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Paula Lietz's avatar

A lot to ponder with little time on either side of the border.

At a recent baseball game my friend and I were discussing this though with much less eloquence.

I simply do not know that type of Christianity ~ at all. What is it.

An idea? I have ideas ..

What is this religion that makes people fear each other, must and greed, fear of woman fear of being different.

It’s so tiring and sad.

I read a excerpt long ago where the author wrote, when the world becomes too much one should make their garden smaller to make it easier to tend.

That may be so but I am going to fling all sorts of seeds far and wide and in peoples faces in *hope* they take root. Seeds of kindness, empathy, patience understanding, generosity and as I wrote in a poem once- seeds love the reckless sound of laughter.

I’m tired of this dark heavy worn cloak upon the world.

The planet deserves better.

It’s humid as heck here as well.

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Justin Ling's avatar

I was raised Catholic: I find Vance's version of the religion totally inscrutable.

The pentecostals? The baptists? The seventh-day adventists? I think I understand why their beliefs get them to where they are. But the Catholics? I don't understand how you can look at a nationalist movement like this — the ideological successor to a movement that once tried to mass deport Catholics, accusing them of being Papal-worshipping subhumans — and think it comports with Christian morals.

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Paula Lietz's avatar

Yep, I don ‘t understand.

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