Myths Matter

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• cmbcav31

  Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:11 pm : 0 : 0 Flag

  I am reading Harry Potter right now, the last book and it is like getting awayfrom the world to a world where friendship and companionship and camaraderie and loyalty and you name it. All those qualities win against evil. It is a way of relaxing when you have the morning news talking about murders and other enlightening things to make your morning more depressing. Well these books are about values and standing on your own and with your friends and fixing a wrong all the way to the end. Yesterday while waiting for the storm to pass I read a whole chapter under a canopy that was going to be used for a funeral (no hole still) and then went al l the way to the LBJ park to read it. The week it came out all the 20 somethings that were there reading it even recognized me as one of the clan, but I was reading the Christopher Hitchens book, God is not great who gives light on the crimes in the name of God of all sides, not even the Eastern religions go unscathed and I like what he said about the kaballah and Madona. At church, a church lady and I had a delightful conversation about it. Then I went into the What is wrong with Islam and the way you persons are making this out is like an eluma saying to the faithful, It is fatwa/anathema and you are lost. What about all those writers of the Bibles, like Tynsdale, Servet, that were killed because 'somebody" did not like their versions. Here in WDC some of us try to be above the fray, we do not want advertising something and then finding it, that we have is Lousiana values. So we have to be eclectic and as a church leader said some 30 years ago, I read for the phraseology, not the theology." So let people live in a little dreamworld when we get is only fire and brimstone and the murder of the day.

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