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I am wondering though ... where in the Bible does it counsel on living between two homes?

I am sure it gives some advice for living in deserts or perhaps on sides of mountains ...

I may need a little more direction

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I wonder if the Missionaries told the Indians that they were "SPAM" when they arrived here too?

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I am wondering though ... where in the Bible does it counsel on living between two homes?

I am sure it gives some advice for living in deserts or perhaps on sides of mountains ...

I may need a little more direction

I don't know. I keep getting to the part where you are supposed to capture a woman from a neighbouring tribe and shave her head and keep her captive for a month and then I start playing with myself....

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I can't type ..... crying ....... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Since I'm sure there are members and lurkers who enjoy going to the church of their choice and benefit from it, I will be serious for a moment.

I have a friend who lives in the States and was raised in a Baptist church and ended up in a very abusive marriage. Her husband was domineering and controling, and this attitude was in line with church teaching of the role of women in marriage, and he made the most of it. He insisted that they go to their pastor for marriage counselling and the pastor tried to guilt the wife into remaining in the marriage and fulfilling her role in accordance with God's will.

This is just one bad example, and I'm sure there are any number of possible good examples of churches helping people. But my issue with the original post here from Deut is that it was a blanket assumption about churches and the bible. Abuse and oppression is widespread through all Christian religions and all abusers within the religions seem to find justification in passages within the bible. There is nothing intrinsic within Christian religion or the bible or the priesthood that makes them any better source of help or advice than you would get from a random stranger. There are some good random people, including Christians and preachers, and the bad random ones. The advice to turn to a church is not helpful, to my experience and reasoning.

So to Deut, I have logical factual reasons to support my beliefs. All you did was make a blanket assertion without support of reason, facts or with any qualification. So I responded in kind. I gave you back what you gave me. And you reacted by playing the victim. Poor Christians, always oppressed.