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Originally Posted by johnny?
I doubt many people are familiar enough with these actual religions to proclaim them as evil behemoths who are out to brainwash your kids and send the rest to limbo.
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Having been brought up in a fundamentalist household (and my parents still being believers) I am in a VERY good position do 'proclaim them as evil behemoths'. I also did Theology as my minor at Uni.
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Originally Posted by johnny?
I myself, was raised as a Catholic and while as a young person I am completely out of touch with the organised nature of Catholicism, I still have core beliefs that I hold dear to me, for a variety of reasons. I don't believe myself to be insane or hold dangerous beliefs that are 'against the very core of our society' or other such reactionary drivel.
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Do any of these beliefs have a foundation in rational thought? Catholicism is one of the worst christian sects for adding further Middle Ages mumbo-jumbo to the already bullshit raddled Biblical texts.
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Originally Posted by johnny?
It's all very good proclaiming religion as the main reason for wars or whatever, but any person with common sense can see it's the people using religion as an excuse to mount egotistical power trips on the world and nothing to do with any spiritual belief anyone has.
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So there's no correlation between Religion existing and people being able to use Religion as an excuse for wars? It's far too easy to assume that people are committing the vilest atrocities on their fellow human beings just because they are 'egotistical' when the unpalatable truth is that the vast majority are doing it because they genuinely believe it to be the will of whichever 'god' they believe in.