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I am not saying to follow my way. Follow God's way.

How can you know if something you are doing is or is not offensive to God?

There are all sorts of religious practices around the world. Some people think they are finding God by praying to various deities. Yet the Bible says these are an abomination.

It is important to worship God as He truly is, not as we might imagine Him to be or want Him to be. Otherwise we are practicing idolatry. It is also important to worship Him the right way. When we follow our own way, it is not worshiping Him in Spirit and in Truth. It is not the way He desires to be worshiped.

John 4:19-24 - The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship". Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth".

1 John 5:21 - Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 - You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, Who delivered us from the wrath to come.

How can you know if something you are doing is or is not offensive to God?

I don't always know. I have to wing it and pray for guidance. And I've been at this a long time. Maybe I shouldn't have watched Billy Graham last night. He's not catholic. I do my own thing.

Dang, I can't stand being lectured by you bible people. It's annoying to the max. Do you have any idea how offensive that is? I make a simple statement about asking certain saints for help, and you are all over me. The catholics get all over me when I don't goose step to everything they say.

You worry about your faith journey, and I'll worry about mine.

I went to mass tonight. We have to pray at every mass, "and I ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, all the angels and saints to pray for me to the Lord, Our God."

I can't please the protestants, I can't please the fundamentalists, and I can't please the catholics, probably can't please the Jews either. I must be doing something right. We were warned that it would be like this.

Now please leave me alone.

I was hoping some catholics would join me in making a novena to St. Jude for Terri Schiavo or I wouldn't even have gotten into this. It's too late to make a novena before March 18.