I am back from working in Glasgow. I had been there for a week and it is nice to see quite a few new faces around.
As I sip on this here beer, I think back to a conversation I had with a women I worked with. She is a church going elderly women and spoke to me about her trips to africa a couple of years ago.
One thing we spoke about worried me about the state of her mental health.
She spoke of a group of about 10 people who were rather poor and lived in a very remote area, but every Sunday they would put on their best clothes and go to church... However, their nearest church was a 15 hour journey away on foot. They would do this every week. The women would wear high heels and walk the full distance in them until their feet bled just because they had so much faith that if they didn't then God would punish them.
The thing that worried me the most was how the women I was speaking to actually saw the whole mad ritual as a good thing and that they were right in doing so.
A god who requires you to actually cause harm to yourself to reach salvation is one that does not deserve respect.
Any thought?
As I sip on this here beer, I think back to a conversation I had with a women I worked with. She is a church going elderly women and spoke to me about her trips to africa a couple of years ago.
One thing we spoke about worried me about the state of her mental health.
She spoke of a group of about 10 people who were rather poor and lived in a very remote area, but every Sunday they would put on their best clothes and go to church... However, their nearest church was a 15 hour journey away on foot. They would do this every week. The women would wear high heels and walk the full distance in them until their feet bled just because they had so much faith that if they didn't then God would punish them.
The thing that worried me the most was how the women I was speaking to actually saw the whole mad ritual as a good thing and that they were right in doing so.
A god who requires you to actually cause harm to yourself to reach salvation is one that does not deserve respect.
Any thought?
Cunt
