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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #70 on: May 10, 2006, 07:42:16 pm »
I have a lovely book about the fundies by a gay man with an Amish background. In the last chapter he goes back to them and finds they are much more tolerant than the Fallwell crowd. It's at home and I'm at my man's place, but I'll post its details tomorrow.

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Name of the book?  Sounds interesting.

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #71 on: May 18, 2006, 11:37:54 pm »
Sorry, I forgot I'd promised this. It's "God's Bullies" by Perry Deane Young, 1982, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, NY, ISBN 0-03-059206-4 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0030597064/qid=1148009141/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8302016-5742356?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 at Amazon.com.

It has an interesting section in the middle about Terry Dolan, head of the National Conservative Political Action Committee - first about Young trying to pin him down on homosexuality, then a second account by a (named) man who had sex with him.
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #72 on: May 19, 2006, 12:40:45 am »
Sorry, I forgot I'd promised this. It's "God's Bullies" by Perry Deane Young, 1982, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, NY, ISBN 0-03-059206-4 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0030597064/qid=1148009141/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8302016-5742356?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 at Amazon.com.

It has an interesting section in the middle about Terry Dolan, head of the National Conservative Political Action Committee - first about Young trying to pin him down on homosexuality, then a second account by a (named) man who had sex with him.

 :o :o :o :o Sex with Terry Dolan??!?

Dang, no one's reviewed the book on Amazon.  Off to google it!

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Re: What is your religion?
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #74 on: May 21, 2006, 11:42:50 am »
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill the Buddha!"   (Zen Saying)


For the record, I was raised Roman Catholic, educated in RC schools and university.  But the RC tradition was my parents choice of faiths, so I left their path to wander a long while studying & experiencing other religions to establish my own choice. 

I now practice Tibetan Buddhism and know about other sects of Buddhism, but I still see the wonder and miraculous teaching of Jesus as true and good.  If you want to "pigeon hole" me, you coud place me in the Unitarian Universalist Church. I am open to the many ways the Divine manifests in the human mind-heart. 

I believe in the perfectly compassionate, all knowing, all forgiving Buddha Mind which lives in every human being.   In some, it is perfectly clear and visible, in others less clear, less visible and there are those in whom it is not clear at all, but is buried by layers of bad karma and delusion.  We are all at different stages of spiritual development. 

That 's why the world is such a mess and why, at the same time, it is perfect.     

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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #75 on: May 21, 2006, 05:05:48 pm »


That is absolutely brilliant Vickie!  Where did you get that?
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Re: What is your religion?
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #77 on: May 21, 2006, 05:36:59 pm »
Yes Vick please tell us; I've been trying to save it and can't. I only get one pic.
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #78 on: May 30, 2006, 02:48:58 am »
I was an agnostic till the last national election, then became an athiest for a while (really dub reason), and now I'm beginning to see Bodhisattvas everywhere...
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Re: What is your religion?
« Reply #79 on: May 30, 2006, 06:42:51 am »
Yes Vick please tell us; I've been trying to save it and can't. I only get one pic.
It's an animated gif (gif87). If you open it using Internet Explorer, it should animate, but if you use most still imaging software it won't. I played with them quite a lot a few years ago. When I can work out how to make them appear in the message field (and hence work) I'll post some.
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