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Originally Posted by Mr. Kotter
Agreed. 
One of the most common attacks on organized churches, are on the excesses and hypocrisy of men. All men are imperfect, and fall short.
Faith and spirtuality should have much less to do with how OTHERS behave and what OTHERS thing, than with what YOU think...
Isn't it kinda of silly to allow the weaknesses of others to influence you so much in what YOU believe? It just strikes me as an adult version of "peer pressure".....
"Look at those hypocrites. Just goes to show they all must be kooks. And I'm no kook."
as:
"Look at those cool kids; they smoke. And the nerds, look at them--they don't smoke. And I'm no Nerd....."
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I've read that about ten times and still have no idea what you're talking about. Do you really think grown up people make spiritual decisions the way 9th graders decide about smoking? Or am I missing a deeper point?