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Division and suspicion
of others is at the heart of such people who won't venture out and "congregate" with the rest of society. They haven't enough "faith" in their own faith, that somehow, the beliefs of others might corrupt their own sense of reality. Having been a Mormon for 20 years I saw this happening to my friends, even my own sister. She didn't want the influence of the "world" to have an effect on her children, on her views of truth and what she saw was the only right way to live. She closed her home to outsiders, except one catholic family--but the husband was interested in being a Mormon, so that was ok--she home schooled her children, so they wouldn't get any "liberal" ideas or teachings other than what she thought was God's truth (in Mormon view, of course).
A Lutheran bought our book, Immorality of Christianity, and he was repentant over the revelation that Christianity was divisive. He said he went to church every sunday. Right across the street was another church, a Baptist Church. They went to church every sunday--in 35 years, he never once greeted them, embraced them as brothers or sisters in Christ. It was a hard thing for him to admit, but when every faith in this country and around the world share the same view, that they are the only ones with the Truth, chosen by God, than it makes for a lonely isolated life.
Thanks for the great post!
FR
posted by
freerain
on January 27, 2004 at 9:53 PM
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