Leave your religious message in towns!

[Excitable Hiker]

For me, finding a bible in a shelter is the same as a ten year old girl finding a porn magazine (I would have said a ten year old boy finding a Playboy but that would be an inproper analogy) I find it highly offensive.

After praying, going to church and trying to find Jesus for years without success, I came to my senses and realized how silly it was to read a book two thousand years old that I couldn't understand half of anyway.

And I wasn't even molested by a priest.

[Cherokee Bill]

AS it is written, "....... and ye shall know them by their fruit..."

[sheepdog]

For me, finding a bible in a shelter is the same as a ten year old girl finding a porn magazine (I would have said a ten year old boy finding a Playboy but that would be an inproper analogy) I find it highly offensive.

After praying, going to church and trying to find Jesus for years without success, I came to my senses and realized how silly it was to read a book two thousand years old that I couldn't understand half of anyway.

And I wasn't even molested by a priest.

I wonder, how did you get that trail name?


Welcome to the WB. Hardly anything offensive happens here.

[Lone Wolf]

i leave bible tracts in shelters often

[MoodyBluer]

i leave bible tracts in shelters often

Saw a few tracts in some shelters here in Ga (Stover Creek, Hawk Mtn. & Gooch) last May while sectioning...(Wolf, are you responsible?) fine for those who want or need that. No need to take much offense to this.

What I found interesting is that after Gooch neither Wood's Hole nor Blood shelters had any tracts in them (I went from Springer to Neel's). I got the feeling that whoever left them was trying to reach the initial thru hikers who often face uncertainty and indecision those first few days on the trail and sometimes are thinking of bailing when they get to Woody Gap.

Or maybe they knew that the first butt kick from Sassafras Mtn would have many folks calling out for God in many different ways...

[minnesotasmith]

just burn all the shelters for crissakes!

Only if at least one anti-shelter hiker has volunteered to be inside the shelter during the whole proceedings. Like how flag-burning as a political statement should only be allowed if wrapped around the flagburner against their skin, this is a small concession on the part of the anti-shelter extremist to show that they're sincere and to be taken seriously. Otherwise, leave the flag, and the shelters, be.

[aaroniguana]

A flag is just a piece of cloth.

A shelter is just a pile of wood.

A bible is just a stack of paper.

When one assigns meaning and emotional attachment to these things, polarization occurs. When one forces these items on another, conflict occurs.

Is that really how you want to live?

[SGT Rock]

Wow, way to bring back a dead thread.