God's Total Quality Management Questionnaire.

[timouse]

here.

4. What factors were relevant in your decision to acquire a God? Please check all that apply.

___ Indoctrinated by parents

___ Needed a reason to live

___ Indoctrinated by society

___ Needed target for rage

___ Imaginary friend grew up

___ Hate to think for self

___ Wanted to meet girls/boys

___ Fear of death

___ To piss off parents

___ Needed a day away from work

___ Enjoy organ music

___ Needed focus on whom to despise

___ Needed to feel morally superior

___ Graduated from the tooth fairy

___ My shrubbery caught fire and told me to do it

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

! Nice find.

[MarcO]

that's a great find, but I must ask, where's the politics?

[Kanada Kev]

Religion, and it's leaders, ARE politicians, spin-masters, and power-hungry

[timouse]

that's a great find, but I must ask, where's the politics?

Religion, and it's leaders, ARE politicians, spin-masters, and power-hungry

well put, kev.

afetr many religion/politics crossover threads, this seeme d like a good place to post this. my bad.

[Kanada Kev]

That's not a "my bad". That should be a "my good". I totally feel that this is a relevant forum for threads that are religious in their subject matter.

Can I hear a Hellelujah? !

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Let the church say amen!

[d_rawk]

Ah, but where is the checkbox for, say, 'the unshakeable conviction of deep mystery and wonder, for which the mundane can not -- or at least does not -- account?', or for 'the recognition that paradox need not be reconciled, but ought be celebrated?'

Where would we have an Abraham Joshua Heschel tick, who famously penned "I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder." (and followed, tellingly -- "and you gave it to me")

[edit:] To be clear, though - AMEN, brutha. Fully in support of a religion/politics confluence in the politics forum. Indisputably inextricable. (Alliteration is dead. Long live alliteration.)

Edited January 16, 2007 by Guest