Da Vinci Code
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Why don't you tell us specifically what you believe it means to be a Christian and why you believe it's just one of many religions.
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(May 19 06, 19:16)i have been raised in an extremely christian environment, i was sent to sunday school where the bible was shoved down your throat from mornings to evenings. i attended 3 christian schools and i lived amongst the most fanatic christians we have here in the Netherlands, called "Gereformeerden" (who are btw. for a large part also responsible for the current christian fanaticism in the US as well, unfortunately).
These people raised their children in extremely isolated environments and even refused to have their children protected against diseases like poliomyelitis simply because God and not us should decide over the lives of children. Children DID DIE because of this. Because their parents thought the giant spaghetti monster was more important to them then the lives of their children.
Then there was so much incest and abuse happening in my neighbourhood it really made you feel uncomfortable living there.
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and with Giant Spaghetti Monster I refer not to a higher entity we call God but to the phenomenon that is created by christian values and beliefs.
i respect the idea of a higher entity but i do NOT respect people dictating other people who this entity is and what his rules are.
because essentially, i'd like to believe in being there for your fellow beings and for the good of our planet as a whole, and if that will not give me access to the giant spaghetti bowl after i die, well, tough luck then.