Bex wrote:


The forum moderator himself has been quoted with saying -- directly saying, not somehow vaguely insinuating -- that the reason several countries in Africa suffer as they do is because they aren't "Christian" enough. And a summary glance at this forum's infamous flamer should also reveal a similar line of thinking (i.e., "You haven't found 'God', therefore you are suffering from illness.") So that's two posters right there.

This kind of backwards thinking is exactly what prompted the Dark Ages. It's why technology, human life span and culture in Medieval times were so far behind that of the Ancient Egyptians or Ancient Greeks who predated them by thousands of years.

In any event I'm more than confident that Linda's statement was not directed at you. That being said, there are posters who believe as she has asserted, so her statement is not without merit, nor is it an offensive statement. On the contrary, the only thing offensive are the ones suggesting that suffering stems from a lack of faith in someone else's religion. Imagine if I told you that the reason you had a heart attack, suffer from cancer, was hit by a car, etc., is because you aren't leaving enough bowls of milk outside your doorstep in sacrificial offering to the gods.