Religious Climbing

Post by **jabbathehut** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 5:17 am

I don't have a dilemma...
I simply inquired as to how others deal with it if "they" do.
I'll wanted opinions - I got em.

Post by **Meadows** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:35 pm

jabbathehut, Faith = Ignorance? yeah, that's why I don't trust boyfriends.

So what are you going to do with all these "opinions"?

Post by **Huggybone** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:40 pm

oh. Ok. Sorry.

Post by **Huggybone** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:49 pm

Well here's mine-
I diddn't have the dilemma at all, I was an atheist from 18 to 22.
My mother asked me why I stopped going, I told her 'If I don't belive in god, what function does church serve? '

While no longer an atheist, I have not attended church for almost five years, save couple random times when I played the orgen and directed a choir in a getto Cincinnati church (filling in for a friend), so I have no dilemma about it.
But, now that I think about it, it would be nice to go to church, but I havn't seen a worshipful church since I left the Chicago area.

Futher supporting my lack of guilt is that attending church is not what regenerated my belief in god- climbing did.

Post by **kentuckysarah** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:53 pm

I'll go ahead and give you another opinion. I am a Christian, but I don't go to church that often. Especially when I want to climb. I figure that it's not the church that makes me what I am, but what I believe. Sure, it's good to go to church for fellowship and to continue learning. But, I'll be honest...I'd rather climb when it's nice outside. I can enjoy God's beautiful creations when I'm outside.

Post by **jabbathehut** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 2:37 pm

no prob huggybone.
good for you about climbing bringing you to god.

hey, were you the one a week or so ago asking where Gumby James is???
I saw him yesterday and was telling him that someone was asking about him, but I didn't know who to say it was.

Post by **rhunt** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 2:48 pm

yep believe it or not jabbathehut is not a troll or Tom

Post by **jabbathehut** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 3:02 pm

Thanks rhunt i didn't know if i could count on you. (checks in the mail)

btw I'm still impressed thinking about your send on Wild Gift. you made it look like 5.11..... oh wait IT IS!!!! It would be at Jackson Falls anyway.

Post by **rhunt** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:08 pm

Thanks for the props Jab. And yes thanks for reminding me that Jackson Fall is the coolest bad-ass hard-core sport climbing area in the World...and of course all the bad-ass climbers that climb there are the strongest coolest people in the World

Too bad Sharma never climbed there...I might have some respect for him then..

Post by **pigsteak** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:12 pm

rhunt,
only rifle is better, but you knew that.