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I said for me life got better. The change is from within. I no longer am searching for something to fill the void I always felt. I tried the drinking and chasing women, I was a good athlete, had lots of friends yet their was always something missing. When I finally came back to my upbringing and followed Jesus that filled that void that I had. I am now satisfied with life, I am not chasing that something else which never seems to work, and I have a great peace that when I die I know where I will be going. That's what makes life better. IF I followed your line of thinking, when you become a Christian your family will never die, you will get everything you need, and you will never have problems again. Obviously that is not the case. It's the peace and knowledge that my sins have been forgivin that makes life so much better. God has changed me and that is what makes life worth living.
Funny, it was only when my belief in the supernatural ended that I truly found contentment and happiness.
Religion and trying to believe in something that wasn't there was what made me unhappy.
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The ACLU doesn't want allow Christian symbols in public areas. Wow, they really must be the devil.
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My point here is that they seem to target only the Christian religion.
Well, what other US religious groups think that they have some kind of right to force their views into public spaces?
It's really only the fundamentalist Christians who boneheadedly think that our government aught to endorse their religion. I guess they don't really believe in the Constitution.
Oh, and here is a very interesting instance of the ACLU defending a very high profile Christian ( I wonder if ol' Jerry is going to stop bashing the ACLU now?):
"In Win for Rev. Falwell (and the ACLU), Judge Rules VA Must Allow Churches to Incorporate (04/17/2002)
RICHMOND, VA--A federal judge has struck down a provision of the Virginia Constitution that bans religious organizations from incorporating, in a challenge filed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell and joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, the group announced today."
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