Perhaps We Would Do Well

In Religious Circles, Depression Is Often Deemed To Be A Spiritual Condition That Can Be Cured With Prayer.

Most Of My Fundamentalist Brothers And Sisters - And I Am An Evangelical, So I Can Say Most Of My Fundamentalist Brothers And Sisters - Are Quite Willing To Pack Women Off And Send Them As Missionaries To Dangerous Places Where They Might Get Killed.

I Have Serious Problems With Fundamentalist Christians And Their Creationist Theories. Although I Believe That Scripture Is Divinely Inspired And Infallible, I Have A Hard Time Going Along With The Belief That The Whole Creation Process Occurred In Six Twenty-four Hour Days. My Skepticism Is Due, In Part, To The Fact That The Bible Says That The Sun Wasn’t Created Until The Fourth Day Of Creation (genesis 1:16-19). I Have A Hard Time Figuring How Twenty-four Hour Days Could Have Been Measured Before That.

There Are Reasons Why Religious Right Evangelicals Will Continue To Dominate Religious Discourse, Not Only In Their Own Sector Of The Christian Community, But Also In What Transpires In Mainline Denominations.

Freud Taught Us That It Wasn't God That Imposed Judgment On Us And Made Us Feel Guilty When We Stepped Out Of Line. Instead, It Was The Superego - That Idealized Concept Of What A Good Person Is Supposed To Be And Do - Given To Us By Our Parents, That Condemned Us For What Had Been Hitherto Regarded As Ungodly Behavior.