I have never understood the need some people feel to be BIG and BOISTEROUS about their faith. To my own way of thinking and, more accurately, feeling, faith and the relationship between yourself and God/Jesus is a quiet, peaceful, still, and very very private thing and extremely personal. I would feel about as comfortable in one of these places as I would at a professional wrestling match. Both seem to be able to whip people up in a kind of mob mentality, which is especially bad when you believe you have God "on your side" and you have the right to judge. Shhhhhh...people...that's His job.
And besides, isn't there a verse that says that "His wrath is ever slow to rise and ready to abate?" That and the "Judge not, lest ye be judged. thing.
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Date: 2005-08-04 11:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-04 04:43 pm (UTC)