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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Annie" data-source="post: 3006576" data-attributes="member: 42224">Sorry, [USER=18914]@mugsy[/USER], if my post came off as Catholic bashing to you. In all honesty, the older I get, the less I care for ANY organized religion.I know it is not everyone's experience, but in my life I have seen more lying, cheating, stealing, abuse of others, etc. all in "God's name" by "the most righteous" among those institutions than anywhere else.I can't seem to get past the Man being made in God's likeness thing. If there is a God, and this is true, I am NOT impressed. Because people, as a whole, are not very nice, to put it gently.I have met some very fine individuals in my time here but they have been few and far between in a general population of complete and total ********. Seems to me if God was really a "good" God, it should be the other way around.I'm guessing I'm gonna go straight to hell for saying that but it's my truth. I'm glad yours is different and you have that faith. For those who have it, I have noticed a "peace" in them I do not have, nor have I ever experienced it. Except when I rely on myself.My prayers, if you can call them that, because they are mostly kind and hopeful thoughts for others, when called upon to do so, are ALWAYS for others and out of respect for their beliefs. But for me, it always has been, and probably always will be, me just sucking it up and dealing with the cards I've been dealt.Anyway, apologies for any offense I may have caused you. I don't know if you remember this or not but you made a post once, several years ago, in a thread about a woman being *****. At the time, I believe you were doing what we all do -- sarcasm is so hard to find when it is an issue you are sensitive about -- and I took it as horribly offensive and told you that in all my years on OSA I'd never read anything as offensive as your comment. You responded to me in a PM I will never forget. I had always had a good amount of respect for you, but after that PM you made my "Top 10" list. There are WAY too few men in this world like you. And the world is a worse place for that ...Even if you are a damned Yankee!! <img src="/images/smilies/new/blush2.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush2    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" /> <img src="/images/smilies/new/hey3.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hey3:" title="Hey3    :hey3:" data-shortname=":hey3:" /></blockquote>

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