Quasimodo wrote:I dunno Ray. I find MDB a catharsis. There are people here that I don't agree with, but that's what makes it cathartic.
The LDS church sails on and often leaves wrecked lives in it's wake. This is a place where those that were cast aside (the chaff) can vent their frustration and find kindred spirits. I think you were once one of those.
Quas, I'm sympathetic, since I'm an "exmo" myself.
It's just that I decided not to become a "career anti-Mormon".
I can live with any "life-losses", and not make a career of blaming the Church for it.
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
This image gives me hope for humanity right now. That is the type of person we need in the midst of our contentions.
Christ and the Adulteress by Lorenzo Lotto 1528
Christ and the Adulteress by Valentin de Boulogne ca. 1620
Christ and the Woman taken in adultery by Guercino, 1621
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
