More Christians need to hear this, particularly in respect to funeral rites, where every sectarian* Christian sentiment is directly aimed at subverting and abnegating every natural human instinct for dealing with grief. As an atheist with a strong humanist bent, I find that infuriating, not least because it's such a transparent con game scheme for social control...
___________ * As in "of an established sect of Christianity," rather than pertaining to those Christians (host included) who practice no particular Christianity other than an adherence to the ostensible teachings of Christ.
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con gamescheme for social control...___________
* As in "of an established sect of Christianity," rather than pertaining to those Christians (host included) who practice no particular Christianity other than an adherence to the ostensible teachings of Christ.