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I always found it interesting that when a network chooses to censor the phrase "God damn", they invariably bleep the "God" and leave "damn" intact.

This is the nature of the world, which we are sometimes told is Satan's domain. Really, it is humankind's, but we are active in pulling in that with which we surround ourselves. Satan's work (call it Evil, or negative energy, or whatever fits your beliefs of the nature of the universe) is *easy* and *quick* above all. Doing good is hard work, so many people simply don't bother because we are, as a species, lazy.

So we've made "God" a bad word. Some people have made censoring it such an automatic thing that they fail to even see the context in which it is written or spoken any more. "[B]ecame a child of God". Such beauty and wonder and joy in four words...but all those are lost on some people. I feel sorry for them, actually, because they will never know that joy.

Congratulations on your baptism, Nancy! A Joyous day!
-Cathy

Hi Nancy ~

Baptized or not, we are ALL children of God..... Every person on this earth! Religion...a funny thing...more people have been killed in the name of their religion than I can even imagine through the ages...And who is God? Everyone has a different answer. Humans all think the rules they attached to their GOD and their religion are absolute fact ~ yet how, for instance, can we possibly know the truth, when in the case of the Christian Bible, we have only a fraction of all the facts! (The Dead sea scrolls would be the REST of the missing pages! Don't get me going on how the 4 books contained in the Bible were selected out of what, 36? ...One Priest chose....WRONG!)

In my own case, a near death experience allowed me a first hand look at religions, God, (goddess) and ultimately Universal consciousness ~ and hence, ultimate freedom from all the dogma attached to organized religions. (Thank you Lord!)

I agree about not bringing up religious topics unless all parties agree beforehand to the conversation, for I have seen it get ugly....which usually spells ignorance at some level. However when you meet up with someone who you can have a discussion with, it becomes one of those great moments in conversation, and both parties feel good about it, and more connected in ideals.

I find life is a mine field...one must pick and choose carefully in every environment, who one speaks with, what one says...sort of like the saying, "When in Rome..." just as long as to thine own self, you are true.