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Blast from the Past!

• ncc-1776.org by Cathy L.Z. Smith

In my early teens I attended church and Sunday school. One month, having missed two sessions of Sunday school, I received a bill from my church for the $.50 I had failed to tithe. In my teens—understanding suddenly what organized religion was all about I became indifferent.

When I started earning my own money, watching others who didn't earn it (and with whom I had no relationship) take some of it, it seemed to me that I should be the one to decide on the use of my resources. Conservation is a natural response to the acquisition of wealth and responsibility. When I was a young adult I was a conservative.

Somewhere along the line, after I moved far away from the family that had taken care of me and protected me, I discovered that those who call themselves liberals and those who call themselves conservatives meant something other than what I did by those terms.


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