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VHawkins:
Barnaby, what you are describing reminds me of many Television evalgelists and so called "faith healers". They say if God doesn't heal you, it is because you don't have enough faith.

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VHawkins:
Joseph --

Can you believe my home town passed a law forbidding the speaking of Spanish for city workers on the job a couple of years back? There was a big law suit and that law is no longer on the books, thank God.

I myself am a United Methodist, and as such believe in a social gospel -- but during that time I made a point of attending a few Hispanic churches, and talked to members face to face about that unjust law, just to let them know not all people in Altus, Oklahoma are like that.

I think some Mexican-American people here will also admit they are of Indian heritage, but many won't. I'd be willin' to bet the same is true up there in Baltimore.

I would never have asked anyone about their heritage until I considered them a very good friend, had eaten at their house or mine, swapped a few fish stories . . . given them a ride to work or home when their car was in the shop or vice versa.

I don't understand what you mean by "braid of stupidity." Never heard that phrase before.

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JosephSWM:
Vance,

I made up the braid of stupidity. You take the one strand of stupidity I encountered with people accepting Hispanic poeple and add the few you encountered and put them together and you got a braid of stupidity, stupidity on their part.

Joseph

Barnaby_McEwan:

--- Quote ---Barnaby, what you are describing reminds me of many Television evalgelists and so called "faith healers". They say if God doesn't heal you, it is because you don't have enough faith.

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It's ironic isn't it? Newagers like to think of themselves as mountain goats, far above the herds in the valley below, but they behave in very similar ways.

VHawkins:
Joseph, sometimes I am just slow. thanks.

Barnaby,

All groups I think, good and bad -- use people who are perhaps just looking for friendship with people of similar interests.  They can call themselves a culture club, tribe, a church, a temple, a mosque or what ever they want to call themselves.

If the person or people organizing it is a con-artist they'll make up a history, a religious belief out of the blue just to make a buck. My personal opinion is many television evangelists are just as guilty as any new age fraud group. I don't know if yall have as many television evangelist as we do -- those who have a made up version of Christianity not found in the Bible.

But it is the exact same dynamic and people they are "preying" on, rather than "praying" for.

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