Where is Your God?? - Democratic Underground

Angry Dragon

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Wed Jun-22-11 06:51 PM
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Where is Your God??

Edited on Wed Jun-22-11 06:53 PM by Angry Dragon

I think this is a valid question to ask someone. Where is your god?? Does he live in your holy book, in the church you visit, in the mountains, valleys, in the desert, or does he live within you??

One of the reasons I ask this because of a couple of posts I read today, these are just the tip of the iceberg. The first one was where the Archbishop of New York was weighing in on who among us should be able to marry. That in itself is to be expected, but the thing that got me was the reference to Gov. Coumo where he is 'a Catholic accused by the Vatican of “public concubinage” for living with a woman to whom he is not married.' Yet they played fast and loose with pedophile priests and are still coving up abuses around the world.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x179913
The article to go with it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/spirited-atheist/post/gay-marriage-the-new-red-menace-according-to-new-york-archbishop/2011/06/22/AGXTVrfH_blog.html

The second one was where a woman, a Reverend in the Untited Methodist Church, is on trial for performing a same sex marriage. Rev. Amy DeLong stands accused of preforming a marriage and a charge of being a "self-avowed practicing" homosexual. I am surprised the earth did not split in two.
She was found guilty on the first charge and found not guilty on the second (12-1). I really liked one part of the article.

'DeLong's counsel, the Rev. Scott Campbell, had argued during the trial that church investigators never asked the lesbian minister whether she engages in prohibited sexual activity, the church's accepted definition for "practicing." And DeLong declined to answer that question when church counsel the Rev. Tom Lambrecht posed it during her testimony Wednesday morning.

"I don't know if you're being voyeuristic or just plain indecent, but there is no way, when you are trying to do me harm, that I'm going to answer and share the intimate, sacred details of our lives," DeLong said.'
Link to article: http://www.jsonline.com/features/religion/124358968.html

Link to DU post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x179921

The reason I am writing this post is because I really do not understand why one would want to stay someplace where they are not welcome. It is like going to a party that you were invited to and everyone there is giving you funny looks and talking behind your back. I know I would not want to be there and would probably leave. Whether I had anything to do with those people again, one does not know.

There are people here that do not believe in a god, people here that are still on a quest to find out, and others that believe in a god. Within each one of those groups are many levels. I personally believe in a force in this universe that at this point in time we do not understand. This force is stronger than man. This can be proved just by looking around and observing. That is what I believe. That is my religion.

Now I ask the ones that are Catholic and Methodist, Why do you stay with churches like this?? Churches that call you sinners because you work to make life better for all and treat everyone equal. Why not start your own church, surround yourself with like minded people??

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