J A wrote:
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> "tension_on_the_wire" <tension_at_home@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> You cannot judge a religion by the flaws in its practitioners. <
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> Religions make a claim that goes way beyond what poltical parties and
> other common human institutions make:
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> they claim *authority and truth* as coming from supernatural beings that
> shouldn't be questioned or contested. The christian religion has books
> that it claims hold "truths" that are inviolate.
>
> Normal political parties do not claim to have access to truth and
> authority of the same type, although communism, as an example, came
close
> to doing so.
That should give you some ideas about
what it means for religion to claim so much.
Religious truths are not about this world.
Religious authority is not the worldly power.
You really should figure out what religion is about.
Is your life worth living?
If so, can you prove it?
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monkfish * alt.atheism is removed from the header because trying to
prove
the existence of God is prohibited by their undebatable policy.
** Atheists have blind faith in their ability to know of all actual or
possible modes of existence. Such hubris cannot be good for science.
