What do Atheists believe? Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism or what? I really do not know you position with regard to faith..may be if that is made clear then I will not be confused with your contributions in the forum
Ken
On 13 August 2012 12:10, Edgar Mbegu <embegu@hotmail.com> wrote:
They are not his ideas. He must have coppied them from somewhere as he is used to do!
He will bring some more of the sort.
Play it cool!
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:04:04 +0300
> Subject: Re: [wanabidii] Re: {GIS} *** Church should waive MARRIAGE Fees !
> From: tmagobe@gmail.com
> To: wanabidii@googlegroups.com
>
> If you "guess my position with regard to faith does not necessarily
> stop me from talking about the ills within these faiths. You want me
> to keep quiet, i won't!" why do you want others not to give their
> views? You seem to have imposing ideas! Don't you?
>
> On 8/13/12, kevin munene <egrints@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you Terry
> > Well answered.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Terry Shiundu
> > <terryshiundu@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Atheist,
> >>
> >> You have already made it clear that you don't subscribe to
> >> 'Church', why should its affairs bother you?
> >>
> >> Terry
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:30 AM, The Atheist
> >> <hmumia@gmail.com>wyouhtrote:
> >>
> >>> Folks,
> >>> I really don't know why the church charges some fees when two are coming
> >>> together as one to get married. I understand that the Church has to run,
> >>> get things going, electricity, water bills, etc pay some workers to
> >>> clean
> >>> those goddamn places of worship (after all, they worship an invisible
> >>> god).
> >>> I understand that the Church, just like any other business, needs to
> >>> cover
> >>> for operational costs. Indeed, you may want to know that being a pastor
> >>> is
> >>> not a calling. Who calls you anyway? That is a topic for another day.
> >>>
> >>> Back to my discussion, so say you want to be married, as i know some of
> >>> you are planning. You will pay the dowry (dowry should be scrapped!),
> >>> you
> >>> will pay the wedding planner, you will pay for your suits, you will pay
> >>> the
> >>> video editing dude, who will do a lousy job anyway! So why should the
> >>> church charge you money, why should you pay the church for getting
> >>> married?
> >>> Especially a church you have been contributing tither like forever?
> >>> Where
> >>> is the holiness in this? You see, even as an Atheist, i would try to
> >>> understand the whole concept of tithing. It is somewhere in the bible,
> >>> though i consider the bible a book full of Jewish mythical ideologies.
> >>>
> >>> In my view, when the church is bringing man and woman together, i think
> >>> nobody should pay for such services. I hear the fees is 10,000 KShs for
> >>> Catholic adherents. I don't know about the others. But folks, this
> >>> reduces
> >>> the whole ceremony to a business venture by most churches, as opposed to
> >>> a
> >>> holy ceremony. In fact i think we need to SCRAP church weddings for that
> >>> very reason. Yes, the government should make civil weddings the only
> >>> legally accepted weddings, where the government validated the union
> >>> through
> >>> the registrar or something. Then it would impose a penalty for that, and
> >>> we
> >>> would understand.
> >>>
> >>> The Church, by charging for weddings, is living up to its true
> >>> reputation, which only i can talk about, of being no more than a
> >>> business
> >>> entity.
> >>>
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