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<blockquote data-quote="TedKennedy" data-source="post: 4242839" data-attributes="member: 25419">I ate Easter dinner with my family Sunday. Quite a religious group they are. Missing from the gathering were my two sons, and my niece.&nbsp; Interestingly those three have been prayed for extensively and were brought up in church. One&#039;s an addict, one&#039;s dead, the other chooses to stay to himself for the most part and avoid such gatherings. (he&#039;s a good kid)&nbsp;&nbsp;All the sincere requests to the Lord and Savior resulted in exactly the same requests being made to Santa Claus. (Oh how I wish I&#039;d used logic more and superstition less)The ultra-religious family of Baptists had a family friend there (current ORU student) who was commenting on the odd practices of other religions. She didn&#039;t know me or my views. Asked me if I was familiar with any of these cults...&quot;yes, I was in one myself, I replied. I was a Baptist for 40 years or so, but I grew out of it&quot;.Mom was sitting next to her, not pleased lol. The ham was good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TedKennedy, post: 4242839, member: 25419"] I ate Easter dinner with my family Sunday. Quite a religious group they are. Missing from the gathering were my two sons, and my niece. Interestingly those three have been prayed for extensively and were brought up in church. One's an addict, one's dead, the other chooses to stay to himself for the most part and avoid such gatherings. (he's a good kid) All the sincere requests to the Lord and Savior resulted in exactly the same requests being made to Santa Claus. (Oh how I wish I'd used logic more and superstition less) The ultra-religious family of Baptists had a family friend there (current ORU student) who was commenting on the odd practices of other religions. She didn't know me or my views. Asked me if I was familiar with any of these cults..."yes, I was in one myself, I replied. I was a Baptist for 40 years or so, but I grew out of it". Mom was sitting next to her, not pleased lol. The ham was good. [/QUOTE]

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