Posted by long term exer on April 15, 2011 at 17:14:04
In Reply to: Re: sigh...still you didn't get it... posted by Farmer on April 15, 2011 at 14:23:43:
no "rhetoric drum" intended. I really meant that things are lost in translation- including my understanding of what you are meaning.
I didn't see a question asking me what I thought about the salvation prayer in the Family. I'm not sure about what you are comparing, the question about the salvation prayer and marriage. That is ME being lost in translation.
I don't believe that people are only in " the dark side" if they haven't accepted the salvation prayer, or if they have another religion. I've met wonderful people who have no religion, have other religions than Christianity, and people who have a Christian religion.
Shortly before I joined COG, I had prayed a salvation prayer which I really believed. It was something very new to me. The way I see things now is that whatever a person's path is after the family will be different for some and I don't see people as not capable of having morals or values unless they are Christian.
Regarding the "system", just like the family had a very sick society, Pol Pot had a very sick society. I can't compare Pol Pot with Helmut Schmidt. Did both make mistakes? sure. But there is a difference that is clear. I don't measure the world as "the system" where in the family it was used to separate members from society at large. Instead, I see TF like I see sick parts of "the system" or "the world" at large- where values and morals have gone awry.
There are very horrible things that happen in the world- speaking of that "dark" underbelly side. But that is not all the world is about.
I don't think I ever told you that your religion was a fairy tale you constructed. Neither have I ever criticised your spelling or typos. I make them too.