Posted by Sadie from D006054.N1.Vanderbilt.Edu (129.59.6.54) on Friday, April 18, 2003 at 0:34AM :
In Reply to: what I meant by "aid" posted by Sadie from D006054.N1.Vanderbilt.Edu (129.59.6.54) on Friday, April 18, 2003 at 0:24AM :
: It's like the Church in some ways.... there are people in the Church who care WAY too much about their idols, the trappings of Christianity, the ceremony, etc....
xxx I mean, our reactions to these events are so typical to the reactions people exhibit to Church corruption. Some people will bicker for years about the objects that they see in their churches - how they are upset a cross was moved away from the altar or the pretty wall-hangings that came over on the Mayflower with all that symbolism in them were removed - while other people in the Church will see what is actually going on within themselves & the congregation - that materialism & this drive to "keep up appearances" have taken the place of humanity & genuine love in their own hearts???
xxx Where's the great Assyrian outcry that their Iraqi neighbors or their Iraqi loved ones are suffering, not because their antiquities are gone, but because they STILL don't have adequate medical care, water, food, sanitation, or electricity???
-- Sadie
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