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• Wednesday, September 10, 2008 09:41 PM

  Y.M.M.V.

  I was raised Catholic and it seems to me that there is usually a more pragmatic approach being used by many Catholics when it comes to balancing their faith with their everyday professional life. Yes, sometimes it's hypocritical, but that's between them and their God. I've also been exposed to the Pentocostal faith by marriage into a family that had a grandfather and grandmother who were preachers. They practiced faith healing, speaking in tongues (although unlike the other poster, I could detect a pattern to the vocalizations) and various other forms of being overcome with the spirit. They also took pains to attempt to enforce their religious views onto all members of the family, as did the majority of the congregation, whether they were a willing participant in that church or not. But in one of the largest acts of hypocrisy I've ever seen, they lost their congregation when they ostracized one of their daughters for entering a mixed-race marriage. You see, their was a fairly diverse church.

  My point here is to say that I do have concerns about any political leader trying to force their religious views onto the country. I've rarely seen that from anyone from the Catholic faith in recent times, unlike the missionaries of old. But I have seen evidence of and experienced someone trying to force their faith on me from Pentocostals as some saw it as their task from their God to bring the sinners into the light. Of course, it may have just been a way to get more tithes to pay for that ostentatious church that they built.

  Yes, in my mind, her religious views and her use of them as a guide in governing are a valid topic of inquery.

  —Graz65 Read Graz65's other letters
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