So, just what are we talking about?

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I have no problem with religious people commingling, though. If two Christians want to share their beliefs, that's fine. It's when they come to me and challenge my beliefs, on the sole ground that they are different from Christianity, that we have a serious problem. To me, trying to change someone else's most deeply-held spiritual beliefs, to conform to your own, is one of the cruelest, most inconsiderate outrages one can commit on another individual. But that's just me.
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So religion is great, as long as I'm not forced into it, or compelled to confront it ... because it then fits into my definition of spirituality instead.

I would go so far as to argue that if someone is seeking a link between their own soul and a deity, then bringing a third party into the group (especially an entire organization, such as a church) is about the worst thing you can do to blind yourself from the sight you're trying to attain.

Keep in mind that I lived in Colorado Springs for 17 years (official home of Focus on the Family and hatred of gays, some of my dearest friends are gay), experienced lots of persecution (I'm a goth), and have a born-again sibling who has said and done some horrible things to me. Sssss, details, they burns ussss ...
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