And I'm not so sure about the structure of this raft. I work and live with lots of church-goers. If belief is what keeps them afloat, I don't see it. There's community and ritual, and their thousand parts that have to do with mingling with other people and havin' fun, that make up Christianity and other churches.
For lots of church-goers, belief is probably something like the feeling I get when the sun breaks out after a damp, drizzly morning. Very pleasant indeed, but nothing to kill someone else for.
Mike Ferro
> Of course, Christianity is based on a whole raft of mistaken beliefs,
> but it has been conclusively proven by a very large number of trials
> that simply pointing out these mistakes does nothing to shake the
> beliefs of the believers.
>
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> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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> When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit,
> 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet;
> Nor ever ever shall, until that I die,
> For the longer I live the more fool am I.
> -- Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melancholy (1684)
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