I suspect the people who write and ask you to look at the good that comes of faith or religion would be astonished and/or upset if, whenever they talked about that good, someone wrote and asked them to look at the harm that faith, or religion, does.
Like you, I know people who have found value there. Some of the people I love are proof that this can be done in ways that don't suppress love or joy, and they don't try to enforce their beliefs on the rest of us, nor support those who do, even when it's in the name of the same god or the same religion.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-09-26 12:44 am (UTC)I suspect the people who write and ask you to look at the good that comes of faith or religion would be astonished and/or upset if, whenever they talked about that good, someone wrote and asked them to look at the harm that faith, or religion, does.
Like you, I know people who have found value there. Some of the people I love are proof that this can be done in ways that don't suppress love or joy, and they don't try to enforce their beliefs on the rest of us, nor support those who do, even when it's in the name of the same god or the same religion.