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panspen - first off - welcome to Blogit - I hope you garner as much from
this site as I have in my time here.
The "why" part is fairly easy to understand when the religious message is more about selling the message than living the message. That really is what it is all about when boiled down to toffee, by claiming the moral high road as a preserve exclusive to a belief in God, the believer afflicted with this contagious mentality accomplishes the furtherance of a number of self serving agendas. The most important of which is the continued expansion (selling) of the religion itself.
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gomedome
on July 12, 2007 at 4:26 PM
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SurvivorMom - they were merely demonstrating good old fashioned "love of
thy neighbour" when they responded that way.
To me it is completely ludicrous for some of these religious adherents to continue to champion a belief system that has failed them so miserably. If an assessment of their negative influences upon the society they live in is not enough to see this failure, their actions and behavior on an indvidual basis certainly are. What part of their own religious message do they not understand?
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gomedome
on July 12, 2007 at 4:17 PM
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strat - thank you and thanx for stopping in
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gomedome
on July 12, 2007 at 4:10 PM
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A-and-B
on July 12, 2007 at 3:36 PM
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I don't understand why some people consider that having a religious faith is a necessary condition for the possession of some morality. The ancient Greeks had the perfect sense to separate the two, and yet you can't accuse the likes of Socrates and Plato to be slouches in ethics. But then with their top deity as a known serial fornicator, rapist and killer - and all before his morning drop of nectar - what choice did they have?
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panspen
on July 12, 2007 at 2:23 PM
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Well said!
Bravo! Although I neither agnostic or athiest, I'm not considered "christian" by the mainstream christian world due to my choice of religion. And I blogged my disgust regarding hypocritical christians, and MAN O MAN...did I ever get flamed with all kinds of accusations! I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of it all!
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SurvivorMom
on July 12, 2007 at 12:14 PM
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This little series has been big fun!
Just catching up, Gome, and as always, well put, well executed, well thought out, well, hell -- just a plain great read!
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strat
on July 12, 2007 at 11:41 AM
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