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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Religious Zealots

   The following story is one of the reasons that I am turned off by organized religion. It is people such as this family that have givin God and His son a bad name!

   This story first appeared in SchoolSpiegel, a SPIEGEL ONLINE Web site that solicits original contributions from school kids about their experiences.

    "When I got out of the plane in Greensboro in the US state of North Carolina, I would never have expected my host family to welcome me at the airport, wielding a Bible, and saying, 'Child, our Lord sent you half-way around the world to bring you to us.' At that moment I just wanted to turn round and run back to the plane. 

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