Originally Posted by Russell2
Hi Jeanie

LOL I’m not sure having 5 makes me a good dad though I do try to be. Plenty of really bad dad’s have lots of kids. We would have had one more but life had other plans, we’re a bit old now anyway so 5’s our lot. It’s a mad house around here at times and you should see the tribe of us heading out camping our outback touring with the 4x4 and the camper, it’s quite a circus. Just need to get them to pull a little more of their own weight. Oh well, the challenges of parenthood.

I don’t think I’d make a good Mormon, I have a habit of speaking my mind about things that make no sense to me. That doesn’t seem to fit too well into most church groups. They don’t like hecklers even polite ones especially during the sermons when I’m most likely to find fault. One of my friends invited me to an Alpha course he was running for his church but thought better of it when I read the program and asked him a few difficult questions about how it was framed. For example I pointed out that day one was an exploration of the question “Is there is a god” and day two was to discuss what he was like. I just suggested that that was kind of presumptuous and that once we’d worked out there was no god that maybe day two could be better spent swimming down the beach or getting out in the bush enjoying all that nature has to offer, something productive like that.

Did I mention that I’m trouble?

All the best

Russell


Nothing wrong with questioning R2. I just think with spiritual matters you need to do it in a spiritual way....(which means prayer). You have to be open. I know you use to be Christian. It would be interesting to find out what happened. I almost gave up on religion. Probably would have if it weren't for the church.... I see problems. And there were a lot of unanswered questions before. Things didn't always make sense. I see problems in my own church, or with the people, at least. We are all human. The Gospel is perfect but we aren't. But if someone has a problem with the plan of salvation, the Gospel itself, they don't understand it or want to live it....plain and simple. I think Russ may have something with the anger thing with atheists. But you can't pigeon hold or generalize with atheists any more than anyone else. Did you ever really believe, though?

Last edited by Jeanie; 10/16/08 01:59 PM.