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m. ([identity profile] coffeeandink.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] vaznetti 2004-12-09 05:21 pm (UTC)

This is almost exactly what I feel, except that I'm atheist -- which doesn't stop Judaism from being an important part of my cultural self-identity and something about which I am fierce. So I do not phrase things as "Right with God," but as a "good person"--and in a lot of ways I'm not a very good person, but my disbelief in the divinity of Jesus Christ has *nothing* to do with that.

And I think I am more offended on my own account, and not just my family's, than you are.

I think the only thing that has offended me worse than Christian proselytism to the living is the posthumous "baptism" for members of other faiths performed by some Mormon sects. And it shouldn't strike me as worse, because I don't believe in point of fact that anything you can do can hurt the dead, or that if souls and Heaven exist, this ceremony can change either of them -- but it makes me see red. They have no right to do that at all. It's obscene.

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