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- From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.162645.23271@data-io.com>
- Sender: news@data-io.com (The News)
- Organization: Data I/O Corporation
- References: <1e9jrsINNolh@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov17.044659.16994@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1ebl10INNol2@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:26:45 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- In article <1ebl10INNol2@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.044659.16994@muddcs.claremont.edu>, dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green) writes:
- >>Those being? (If StM can demand examples, I think it's only fair that I be
- >>able to as well.)
- >
- >To name a few:
- > Roman Catholicism
- > Greek Orthodox
- > Russian Orthodox
- > Jehovah's Witnesses
- > Mormons
-
- You forgot all the Protestants...
- Lutherans
- Baptist
- Congregationalists
- Quaker
- Anglican
-
- uhm... sorry, that's not even *close* to a total list...
-
- >One can also receive comfort from friends and family, and from the realization
- >that one can't be responsible for unforseeable events. So what extra does
- >religion provide? And could it provide that extra without imposing other costs
- >in the first place?
-
- Hmmm... depending on the circumstance and how the religion sets up its
- organizations... in our congregation there are a lot of people without
- 'family'. Folks that *need* a support network that they do find in our
- concept that everyone that's a member is a member of the Church Family.
- There is a *lot* of inter-generational support within the structure of our
- congregation that makes it very easy for our elderly to get support from
- the younger members, and the younger members to get experience from the
- elder members. We have a special organization called WITs (Women in
- Transition) just for women and women's issues. Part of the group's
- charter is to teach about things like rape, to talk about how folks have
- dealt with it and how it's easier to deal with it and to provide
- communication and support.
-
- Sometimes it's *eaiser* to ask for help from those that aren't close to
- you, especially if all the family one has is the husband that one moved
- here with, as one of our ladies noted; because half the terror and the
- fear is *in* further sexual advances by *anyone*. So it helped her to
- have WITs to work through things with.
-
- Not everyone has family.
-
- Some of the older members of our church have had their kids go free, and
- most of their other friends and family die before they have. Now they have
- kids to love, people that still look up to them as experienced, and other
- people to interact with.
-
- I'm *not* saying that only Christian churches provide this, as the folks at
- the Buddhist Temple in the International District has similar stuff set up.
- But it *does* seem to be common to those that gather for *any* religion.
- So it seems be something that is commonly provided with a religion.
- ----
- Liralen Li
- li@Data-IO.com
-