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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Wow, somebody needs to get a life here... [quote] [b]jade said:[/b] I am not that kind of person. But being that we live in a free society, if I were a different kind of person if I wanted to impose my religious beliefs on someone I could do so within the law. [/quote] You really don't - try to - understand what WS, DL-44 and Suho are trying to tell you -- with great patience, as far as I can tell, since it has been lasting for as far as I have been registered on the Asylum -- do you? I tend to keep out of threads like these because I really don't have a huge religious culture, although I am a (non-practising) protestant. But come on, you don't really think [i]democracy [/i]means the [i]right to do anything you want[/i], do you? And as far as this goes: [quote] [b]jade said:[/b] Those who profess faith in any creed want to share their God. God could be represented in a tooth fairy and in Santa. So...This is the formation of a relationship with an intangible in early childhood. Did your children believe in Santa and the tooth fairy in their early childhood? Or did you deprive them of the pleasure an fun. It was so much fun for me and my husband to get the donut and hot chocolate ready for Santa. And write the letters from the tooth fairy. And I know I will do the same when I have grandchildren. [/quote] I really cannot believe that some people are unable to fathom the fact that there are other cultures and traditions in this world... Come on Jade, you don't mean what you're writing, do you? Do you realise the words you are using? "[i]Deprive [/i][our children]"?! Of believing in the Tooth Fairy or Santa?? So let me try and summarise your points: 1. Santa (and the Tooth Fairy) are necessary to a good religious education 2. Without Santa (and the Tooth Fairy) no child is able to develop his/her religious beliefs 3. Failing to make one's children believe in Santa (and the Tooth Fairy) will result in unhappy childhood, possibly paganism, because they will be unable to grasp the concept of religion Did I get that right? Also, do you leave Doughnuts in the church for God and his Apostles? [quote] [b]jade said:[/b] It was so much fun for me and my husband to get the donut and hot chocolate ready for Santa. And write the letters from the tooth fairy. [/quote] And this really makes me wonder who's getting the more fun with the Santa and Tooth Fairy thing in your family... And it also strangely reminds me of something else: when I used to go to church -- not very often but enough to my liking -- I used to be not impressed at all to see that the priest was getting about in a Mercedes and his kids had the latest fashion clothes and items, while my dad was struggling to meet needs ends. So when we were asked to make "contributions towards the church" I couldn't help but wonder towards whom exactly we were making contributions. I'm not saying he wasn't earning a living in a honest way, but it did feel awkward anyway. This is what drew me out of church: hypocrisy. And the same hypocrisy bleeds out of each and every post of yours, Jade. If this is religion, well, Thank you but no, thank you. [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/5434]kimson[/url] on 08-15-2007 17:35)[/small] Loading...
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