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Thread #95248 Message #1851332
Posted By: George Papavgeris
05-Oct-06 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: Children and religion
Subject: RE: Children and religion
A shower and beer later...
CH, do you really confuse misogyny with prejudice - the Church not allowing women priests? I don't believe that you have led such a sheltered life. Anyway, that is the Church "interpreting", the "Old Boys Club" as you correctly state, not the belief system. And this was one of the reasons why I became disillusioned by the Ekklesia, but not by Orthodoxy. I found it quite easy to separate the two, as one is mainly contemporary and focuses on interpretation and the mechanics of religion, while the other is old, based on the original scriptures and focuses more on the basics of good and bad behaviour. One is people and buildings and stuff. The other one is ideas. Not that hard really.
And remember that good things can come from bad people - you can espouse the former even as you detest the latter. Even Hitler did some paintings - I don't know how good they were, but certainly better than his subsequent actions. I had a sadist for a Maths teacher once - but I still liked Maths, even as I disliked him.