Moro1

At the risk of getting yelled at, lol... It isn't mother's day that's the problem. It's the pressure put on many women to have children such that they feel like failures when they don't or can't. Considering this, it isn't insensitive of the church to recognize the accomplishments of mothers. But it is insensitive of the church to recognize the accomplishments of only mothers and not other women. If we only acknowledged other achievements, it wouldn't be such a huge deal because there wouldn't be nearly as much pressure to have children. Fortunately, they already have a day for that (March 8th). "International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political."

Lately i've been wondering about "spiritual blindness". i recently got into an argument with an atheist skeptic who was "proving" that the paranormal (God, angels, and demons) don't exist by trying to summon and taunt demons. he kept complaining that his friends and family could see ghostly phenomena and get the ouija board to work, yet he couldn't. he came to the conclusion that his friends were just seeing the exact same hallucinations, and HE was the one who was perceiving everything accurately. but was he born that way? and so what if he was? does that really give him a free pass to be an intellectual snob about it? or to assert that, if HE can't personally see something, it doesn't exist?