I was raised Southern Baptist. I did not leave my religion, it left me.
In fact, it left me at a SBC meeting in Houston in the early 1970's, when Judge Paul Pressler stood up and told the convention that he and the people that believed politically what he did would be taking over the...
I taught World History in a Catholic middle school decades ago. (I am not Catholic.)
We touched on the Crusades as a noble effort to assist the people of Jerusalem, but the Inquisition was pretty much glossed over. I flatly told my 8th graders that their textbooks were edited to eliminate some...
If you're sane enough to question your own sanity, you're probably still OK. It's when the REST of the world knows you're nuts and you don't believe it that you gotta start worryin'. Umm, think GWB. He's stone cold whacked out banana-cake in the cranium, and he has no question as to his sanity...
IMO, 12 step programs are a combination of pop psychology and pseudo-religious though that got put together to provide a DIFFERENT addictive activity. Instead of drinking, you go to a meeting or work the steps. Instead of drugs, or food, or whatever "addiction" you're trying to overcome--work...
Hello, everybody.
My name is Dee Dee, although my S/N is carcinoid112. I was invited here by this 9/10ths of a Penguin kinda guy.
I promise to try to behave. And I promise to try to figure out this forum system so that I can keep up, sorta. (Lotsa buttons to push. Cool.)
So, Hi!