Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00691)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Andrew Smith wrote:
> >>>Nuff said???
> >>
> >>	No. What's your point?
> > 
> > Bart, I was similarly abused in a Protestant church when a boy, 
and 
> > this kind of thing just makes me rage! I finally lost all faith 
in 
> > institutional religion and religion generally. Does "terror in 
the 
> > name of God" only have to be by al-Queda militants???
> 
> Did any of the people who abused you believe that they were 
doing so 
> because that is what God wanted them to do?
> 
> Bart

Bart, Does that make any goddamn difference?!? The psychological 
effect is the same, unfortunately.