[Faith-talk] Refutation and preeminent repudiation totheZionistsubjection.

Sun Jul 20 21:05:34 UTC 2014

Agreed Kendra. 
I strive to find nuggets of wisdom in any of the sacred writings or books on
spirituality that I choose to read; it has worked very well for me.
Fighting against the bible, Koran, or any other sacred tex is for me, and
dare I say for all of you Christians and nonchristians alike,
counterproductive.  And that includes the god's word will defend its self
statements.  I'm not stupid, you haven't disguised your purpose from me or
anyone else even if you coutch it in those terms.  Our islamic friend has as
much write to be hear as anyone else.  -----Original Message-----
From: Faith-talk [mailto:faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kendra.
Schaber via Faith-talk
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 4:43 PM
To: debby phillips; Faith-talk, for the discussion of faith and religion
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Refutation and preeminent repudiation
totheZionistsubjection.

Hi readers! 
These are all good questions. As a Pagan, I see the world as a church. That
means that wherever we can get permission to practice our religion is fair
game. We can practice it anywhere we choose as long as we get permission
from the managers, landlords or owners if we want to burn candles for
example because not all buildings allow it because of fire hazards. If we
visit someone's house, we have to respect there faith and associated gods.
When I go to visit my Christian friends, I respect their beliefs and their
god while I'm there. My blindness doesn't affect my faith. The ADA doesn't
affect my faith either. The ADA affects my blindness especially whenever
signs are not in Braille.. I believe that we are all equals both as a blind
person and as a Pagan. I also believe that there are many paths to eternity.
In my book, if only one path was accepted, than everyone in the world
wouldn't be happy with their religions or that everyone who didn't believe
in the Christian God would be committing major crimes. Since I know a lot of
people who are happy with their chosen paths, I am included here, I have
always believed that if you are happy with your faith, than that is your
correct path. We all have our rights to our aponions. However, sacred texts
from all over the world needs to be respected and not criticized. You can
read it and dissagree with it as long as you make a point to agree to
dissagree. Pagans don't follow one set of sacred texts. We reconize that all
of them are equal. All of them have truth to them. All of them are also
followed by at least one group of people very much like the Christians
follow the bible. I think that the questions are thoughtful but offensive to
Christians because they also critasize their sacred texts. I have a question
for the non-Christians on this list. Do you read, studdy and regard any
sacred texts as the truth? I call sacred text scripture, legends, folk lore,
dogma, mythology. As for me, I follow mythology, folk lore and legends. I
believe that they hold a lot of truth. I do read scripture and agree with
some of it. I read it with respect and reconize it as a sacred text. I read
it to learn from so I can better understand what others follow and regard as
sacred. I see it as a way to be better informed about the faiths of others
so that whenever I meet them, I can jump in and make friendships or
partnerships with them. I look at all angles as I read and take with me what
I agree with as good teachings and the rest with a grain of salt and
reconize that information as sacred to all who do agree with it. I would
want the same done with my sacred texts. 
Kendra 

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> On Jul 20, 2014, at 7:36 AM, debby phillips via Faith-talk
<faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey Ashley, I think your topic is right on.  How does blindness affect our
faith? And how does blindness affect how we deal with others of differing
religions? Now, that may sound strange, so read me out.  First of all, I'll
deal with my second question.  There are various cultures and faiths that
view blindness very negatively.  How do people overcome those obstacles? As
a dog user how do I deal with a cab driver who refuses to allow my dog in
his cab because he is Muslim and believes that dogs are unclean? how do we
deal with issues that affect our rights and someone's freedom of religion?
For instance, if a law requires that I do something that I find
reprehensible because of my faith, how do I deal with that?
> 
> Then my first question, how does blindness affect my faith? Well, in one
way it does not.  What I believe is in my heart, and I try to live out my
faith every day, showing the love of Jesus to others.  And I want to be of
service to others.  But what happens when people say, You can't do this or
that because of your blindness.  As a Catholic, I wanted to enter a
particular community of nuns.  (This was years ago and now I am married).
But they did not want to have "anyone with handicaps" in their community.
Good luck with that, when members get older and have disabilities.  Churches
in the United States are not required to follow the rules of the ADA.  So
what recourse does a person have? These are topics that I think are
blindness-related, and certainly NFB related.  Thanks for reading.
Blessings,    Debby
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