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I have, for most of my adult life, thought that whatever "God" is, it is so far outside human understanding that putting any sort of label on it or trying to put it in human terms only brings us away from spirituality. A a lifetime Oregonian I think one of the reasons that Oregonians have less traditional view of religeon is because so many of us have a strong connection to the outdoors and what is more spiritual than being away from human civilization under a night sky.

Jocelyn Reed,
Bend OR

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