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Originally Posted by Doug
Just personal life experiences of religion and beliefs Mancie; the Mother in Law event was over 20 years ago, my marriage lasted 3 years, the heart ache of that experience is buried deep but always hurtful; the same can be said of the Mother in Law.
Despite having a Church of England background what hurts is the fact that Catholic blood runs in my veins through ancestors as does the blood of the Jews, but the selfishness and blindness of other peoples religion never considers that.
We all know that the most persecuted religion in history is that of the Jews; mostly by a Jewish sect called Christianity; within Christianity the Catholic Church persecuted and murdered its way though its own people and those of other religions and in turn the English Church persecuted and murdered its way though the Catholics of the British Isles and beyond. Everybody's had a go at the Muslims and yet True Islam is one of the most respectful and embracing of all the peoples of the Book. It is also one of the greatest contributors to Medicine, Science and literacy.
So what's wrong in the world today is no different than a thousand years ago; religion has always been a power base of a few to control a mostly illiterate majority only today we call ourselves enlightened and the rest of the worlds religions has some variation of evil. Only Man is evil towards other men and usually its only a few; today it's within the hand of politics; before that in the hands of Kings; before that Priests and before that tribal leaders and mystics. Power as never been in the hands of the people and it never will.
All we can do is try and respect others and take only those elements of religion or beliefs that work for us and show no offence to those that don't. I am as happy to dance around a tree naked has I am to sit in a Church. People who seek to hurt others will only suffer themselves in time; it's wrote throughout our history
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I had two mother-in-laws Doug, I could have gently squeeze them round the neck on many occasions, but resisted the temptation, and you right about others receiving their comeuppance, its called what goes around comes around
