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Painful Delusions.

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Painful Delusions.
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Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 3:55 pm
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.

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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Other than how fucked up people's heads can get in the service of delusion?

No.
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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Quote: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


Sounds like most of Mississippi.
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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 4:37 pm
lol, Min beat me to it.
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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 4:46 pm
You don't really get that kind of stuff here in Scotland, although I did have a fun debate with a man in the city centre of Glasgow handing out leaflets saying that "God communicates with us". He was very moronic.
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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 4:56 pm
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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Where in Scotland do you live, Frankie? I've spent a fair bit of time there, mostly outside of Edinburgh.
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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Dundee... But to be more exact, Broughty Ferry
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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Very cool. I have friends in Perth and Aberfeldy.
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RE: Painful Delusions.
July 2, 2011 at 6:56 pm
All I can say is that's incredibly sad that they waste their energy just to pray to God.
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