Originally Posted by king6 II
I think I have a lot of life experience, and in that experience, I have seen religion make good people out of bad ones and having served in the middle east, I have seen people to evil things in the name of religion. I have seen terrible things and I have taken lives, hearts no longer beat because of my actions. However, I did not do these things because of what god I worship, instead it was because of the symbol that is my avatar. I was raised Catholic, and have undergone 8 years of Confraternity of Christian Doctrine...A.k.a. religious education. I learned to say "Amen" when they offer the cracker and say "The body of Christ", I learned the "Nicene Creed" and the "Apostles Creed", along with the "Our Father" and "Hail Mary". Aside from that I learned compassion from life experience, I am not sure if my religious upbringing had anything to do with that or not although it is always with me. I consider myself a good person however, I can not say what role religion played in it. I honestly believe the older we get the wiser we get, when my hear stops beating I do not know what lies in store for me. In the mean time I will continue to be compassionate and help others the best I can, because it is who I am. I am reminded of a quote that I say daily as a child:
The purpose of life is not to be happy--but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
-Leo Rosten-
Maybe it means something maybe it doesn't, and I am not sure if this is even relevant to the topic at hand. I will get off my soap box now and just ask that we all be good to each other.