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To: LWalk18
Do you really think that her family would have wanted to raise a half-black grandchild in 1973?

I wouldn't have been thrilled if my unwed daughter came to me pregnant, but I'm pretty sure we'd have raised the child (as opposed to forming an adoption plan). Just to be clear, killing the child would never have been an option. You are belittling the impact Faith has on people. As an aside, my wife and I (Caucasian Catholics) adopted two Viet Namese children in 1975. Obviously, they were a different race from us and our other children.

We are all made in the image and likeness of God. And it's trite, but even the smallest children know "Red, and yellow, black and white, we are precious in His sight Jesus loves the little children of the world."

63 posted on 02/03/2006 12:26:10 PM PST by old and tired (Run Swannie, run!)
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To: old and tired
You are belittling the impact Faith has on people.

My dear O and T. You are confusing the 2000s with a century that understands reality. In the 2000s the only thing faith can do is make people behave differently than they were born by nature to do. That's why the little kid who played Pocahontas in "The New World" talked about how awful it must have been for that poor woman to become a Christian.

Understand, stories like the story of Pocahontas, or the Waodani as told in "The End of the Spear", where faith actually changes your life for the better and creates a viable society where one does not live before will NEVER be acceptable in this century. Faith can only enslave, it can never liberate.

That is, unless you know G-d.

Shalom.

149 posted on 02/06/2006 10:31:15 AM PST by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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