kBOY wrote in part: "On a worldwide scale over the last 2000 years, Christianity has much to be embarrassed about, including the almost complete genocide and subjugation of indigenous populations on multiple continents. This is a track record I am THANKFUL to be no longer associated with.
I realize this particular forum deals with the damaging effects of TLW, but the apple does not fall far from the tree. All of the offenses committed within the fellowship reflect the same within Christianity as a whole at any given time or place. When doctrine is allowed to trump LOVE, there is trouble in River City."
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So true.
I like the following:
Wikipedia --- "The Great Spirit, called Wakan Tanka among the Sioux and Gitche Manitou in Algonquian, is a conception of universal spiritual force, or supreme being prevalent among some Native American and First Nation cultures. According to Lakota activist Russell Means a better translation of Wakan Tanka is the Great Mystery."
Duke University --- "The Great Spirit (Wakan Tanka, Gitchi Manitou of Native American cultures) is a beautiful example of a non-theistic belief in an active, personal, non-anthropomorphic Deity that is intertwined with the fabric of the Universe itself on the large scale and yet is personally engaged with the web of living things and the world on an earthly scale."
(Personally engaged in a love relationship, not subjugation.)
I realize this particular forum deals with the damaging effects of TLW, but the apple does not fall far from the tree. All of the offenses committed within the fellowship reflect the same within Christianity as a whole at any given time or place. When doctrine is allowed to trump LOVE, there is trouble in River City."
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So true.
I like the following:
Wikipedia --- "The Great Spirit, called Wakan Tanka among the Sioux and Gitche Manitou in Algonquian, is a conception of universal spiritual force, or supreme being prevalent among some Native American and First Nation cultures. According to Lakota activist Russell Means a better translation of Wakan Tanka is the Great Mystery."
Duke University --- "The Great Spirit (Wakan Tanka, Gitchi Manitou of Native American cultures) is a beautiful example of a non-theistic belief in an active, personal, non-anthropomorphic Deity that is intertwined with the fabric of the Universe itself on the large scale and yet is personally engaged with the web of living things and the world on an earthly scale."
(Personally engaged in a love relationship, not subjugation.)