slowmutant wrote:
Professing religion is
not the same as being a sheep!

Obviously. Pastors/preachers/priests/whathaveyou profess religion and they are the shepherds. So what?
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Atheists make for very good sheep, as well.
So we should all pay a man/men tax-free tithes to lead us in our spirituality? Puh-lease. Atheists tend to have one less shepherd they cow to and blindly follow.
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Anyone who continually advertizes how nonconformist they are is just masking their profound fear & insecuriy.
Uh-huh, yeah, sure, whatever. Believe what you must to ease your soul.
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I would no more want to be my own shepherd than I would want to be my own dentist.
Dentists come with proven credentials. Religious shepherds are taken on faith and tend to prove quite often unfit to the task. I've met very few religious shepherds that are actually wise, many of them give horrible advice that ruin people and families. When it comes to your spiritual wellbeing, you can really only count on you.
So stuff it.
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