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<blockquote data-quote="Average at Best" data-source="post: 337438" data-attributes="member: 14548"><p>I went to a Catholic school, and it was that experience that made me revoke my catholicism. Everything was based on money - the district attorney's daughter was the starting varsity pitcher (but was no good), the board of directors' kids got preferrential treatment, etc. As a work-study kid, it was tough, especially when they preach about the widow and her pennies and the rich man having a harder time getting into heaven than a camel through a needle'e eye, but practice that money can buy the church's respect.</p><p> </p><p>As soon as I left home, I stopped going to church, but I still felt excluded from other people. So I started volunteering on Sundays. Walking dogs at the humane society, working with Girl Scouts, and doing yardwork for a battered women's shelter has connected me more to God and His plan for me than sitting through an hour long service in a church that doesn't treat me - a woman - as an equal. I bear no grudge to those that are religious - I just see religions as a business out to make money based on the promise of salvation, when I truly think I can achieve salvation by following the simple rules of "first, do no harm" and "treat others as you'd want yourself treated."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Average at Best, post: 337438, member: 14548"] I went to a Catholic school, and it was that experience that made me revoke my catholicism. Everything was based on money - the district attorney's daughter was the starting varsity pitcher (but was no good), the board of directors' kids got preferrential treatment, etc. As a work-study kid, it was tough, especially when they preach about the widow and her pennies and the rich man having a harder time getting into heaven than a camel through a needle'e eye, but practice that money can buy the church's respect. As soon as I left home, I stopped going to church, but I still felt excluded from other people. So I started volunteering on Sundays. Walking dogs at the humane society, working with Girl Scouts, and doing yardwork for a battered women's shelter has connected me more to God and His plan for me than sitting through an hour long service in a church that doesn't treat me - a woman - as an equal. I bear no grudge to those that are religious - I just see religions as a business out to make money based on the promise of salvation, when I truly think I can achieve salvation by following the simple rules of "first, do no harm" and "treat others as you'd want yourself treated." [/QUOTE]
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