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So the whack job Fundamentalist. This is the person that can turn off more people to Christianity faster then any act of terror I can think of. For those of you who didn't read the post I had I fill you in quickly. I had a patient who was dying (its what I do) and his daughter would not allow him to have any pain or comfort medicine because she wanted him to accept Christ before he died so he wouldn't go to hell. In talking to her I mentioned that there is a woman in the hospital who deals frequently with people who are ready to cross over into whatever is next. She walks in a room and can feel the loved ones around the dying individual...their spirits there to take someone home. In mentioning that to this daughter her immediate question was...is she a fundamentalist? That's what I love about a good Christian Fundamentalist .... they have the corner on the market of everything. How did becoming a Fundamentalist translate into becoming an exclusionist, sanctimonious tool for torture to the masses that don't believe what she does. Isn't there something in that book she is ready about kindness? I thought there was. Isn't there something in that book about hating the sin but NOT the sinner? Was she a fair representation to the world of the kindness of Jesus Christ? I think not. And for those of us who have been more hurt by someone who claimed Christianity then those who claimed allegiance to no entity in particular, I can say that the masses of Christians will have to do without me.
I want you to believe what makes you happy. You must follow your heart. Again, I've read it....I understand. The difference is I don't feel the need to tell you if I think you are wrong. I don't have any interest in you telling me if I am wrong. I want you to see who I am and wonder what love and what I fear based on how I love you. How I love you as a friend, as a person, as a nurse, as a person who helps you through the dying process for you or your loved one, as the person who holds the door open for you, the person who lets you into the traffic, the person who tries to respect what you believe and learn what I can from you. I take a piece of every person with me. Good or bad. I remember it, I try to make what is good part of me and what is bad I try to recognize in myself and get rid of. Your opinion matters to me only if you are someone I love or if you are someone who truly loves me. If I ask for your opinion, I really want it, honestly. If I don't ask for your opinion, I really don't want it, honestly.
More people die every day and throughout history and into the rest of the existence of man, in the name of some God or another than to any other cause. You believe what you believe. I'll believe what I believe. Everyone will be surprised at who is on the other side and what the other side is. In the meanwhile, if I love you, I just love you. No conditions in this life or the next. If you love me, you'll do the same for me.
And finally....if you are there when I am dying and you don't give me morphine to ease my passing I will haunt your sorry ass until the end of your days and if I am with some sort of devil or evil entity I will sacrifice all that I am eternally to make sure no one else suffers like that. Its needless and cruel and NOT Christian.
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