There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That THAT my friends is true perversion.
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion or something as inane as our flicks.
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That my friends that is true perversion.
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
There's naught no doubt so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
If you want to have a relationship at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter and we share everything and talk about everything.
When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
When a mother quarrels with a daughter she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.