Religion

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One needs to hold onto it in every way possible, a widow's mite saved is a widow's might earned. (Please note it was not a "widower's mite" as well--women need just make a good match!) to which I LMAO. Time is (never enough) money, either, the longer to save, my dear. -- that's why it's said to "Follow the money," for that snake-inhabited Tree of (God-like) Knowledge and Life bore the valued fruit of ancestral seduction, the source documentation of "nasty women." As for those leaders, shepherds of flocks need "dumb" sheep to remain exceedingly worthy and employed for the duration of their time, hence a paid-by donation occupation thinking up ways to get more members and donations, with parish house and free meals at the homes of the righteous flock members.

Fundamentalist organized religion sucks! Looser organized denominations are just a band of organized rebels of human interpretation.

I'll opt for accepting there is a Higher Power of creation who set some basic rules for living, and I'd rather bet that there was a Son of God, JC, who went to prepare a place(s) where the energy that fuels what is me changes eternally than not believe that; therefore I choose to live with unorganized gratitude, generosity as I am able, and tolerance within some limits that I choose and in a place that expressed those choices as life, liberty, and the pursuit of what makes me happy to contribute my life's energy to the world in which I live or from which I travel--I choose 1 John 4:8 "He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love," and 1 Corinthians 13:13 - And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." I see very little of that in the GOP and none whatsoever in the poser, the embodiment of what constitutes the Seven Deadly Sins, pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth, in the WH.

MineralMan - That said, I accept and respect your choice of atheism though I am not very adept at understanding that solely scientific (reasonable) viewpoint. I do hope your energy will be transformed into a form that will be useful to the Universe. How do you explain evil or Evil - or do you not believe that exists as well?