Comments for Tompkins-Bischel: Jesus and the garbage can at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://lakeconews.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:35:46 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7278/925/#comment-11348 Aren't you the same woman who put her daughter's pain on public display because you think you are some kind of writer? Your strings of adjectives are as superficial as your beliefs. $20 to a hungry human being and you equate yourself with God...shame on you. Beliefs are easy; living them is much more difficult. Your sins can't be covered by a random $20. Jesus wouldn't make his child's pain a journalistic opportunity. - a guest Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:49:02 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7278/925/#comment-10727 Love the article. Good job, Gale...something for everyone. It's all so simple, not always easy, but always simple. - a guest Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:14:39 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7278/925/#comment-10622 Amazing how you got your dander going starting at the fifth paragraph. - AnnieSmith Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:25:22 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7278/925/#comment-10621 of love is not easily accepted because it is disturbing. It challenges fear and disturbs the psychological defenses people put up to not feel their fears or pain. These defenses are among other things often made of personal beliefs, ideologies, and rigid religious dogma...anything inflexible, divisive and closed up is frequently used as a defense, a wall erected around the self. As a matter of fact, the more neurotic a person, the stronger his/her beliefs. Someone with an open heart can relate to the world directly, without a barrage of beliefs as protections. Love is as a river, it needs to flow freely to remain alive. It is ultimately irrepressible, it must find an outlet. The only problem being that its expression is often terribly distorted, even to the point of hate. Hate is a cry for love, and expression of suffering from a lack of love. Whether someone does something good in the name of Joshua, Buddha, Mohamed or justice, fairness, care, compassion, generosity makes no difference. The most "spiritual" people are sometimes those who deride religions and mainstream beliefs, but care deeply for other human beings and the earth, and act accordingly. Who care what label anyone wants to put on their forehead? That's what is in the heart that matters. There is as much hate within the religious community towards those who do not share these views as there is outside of it, and the same goes for love. Love within the Christian community however is usually seen among those who go with the new covenant...the old testament Bible thumpers are as frightening as the Taliban. - Raphael Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:10:44 +0100