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Article: Guilt, religion and New Year's resolutions
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- Redlands Daily Facts
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- January 6, 2009
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Ah, hardly is the New Year upon us when it's already past time to
make my New Year's resolutions! Of course, I did not keep very many
of them last year, but that's not a good reason not to make a batch
more for this next time around.
What do you plan to do for the New Year, and would any of the
professor's set of resolutions offer any help?
1. In the New Year I resolve to not use guilt manipulation to
make my children, spouse, relatives and friends go to my house of
worship. God knows it's such delicious fun to put the moral
thumbscrews on them, but it does not do a great deal in the
department of conversion either. Leaving religious tracts around the
house is still fair game, however. I ...