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Old 08-25-2009, 02:56 PM
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gee, you sound like you are describing a "cult".

(sorry, bite my tongue. )
Q. What is the difference between a religion and a cult?
A. About the same a a baby and an adult.

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Q. What is the difference between a religion and a cult?
A. About the same a a baby and an adult.
I like that analogy a lot. There is a high infant mortality rate in the process.
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I like that analogy a lot. There is a high infant mortality rate in the process.
Unfortunately, many still made it to maturity and became a religion.
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...The issue is whether a rational animal should ever obey a more powerful being without question...

... Conceding absolute moral authority to someone else when you have the ability to think it thru for your self is vice, not virtue.
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Consider the possibility that the beings are not in the same hierarchy. Your perception of the relationship might be reversed if it took place between a retina and a hippocampus.
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You guys dont have a clue what this thread is about....do you???.......
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You guys dont have a clue what this thread is about....do you???.......
What are you doing hanging out in an atheist thread? It appears you don't know what it's about. And quoting random scripture gibberish isn't going to convert anyone.
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What are you doing hanging out in an atheist thread? It appears you don't know what it's about. And quoting random scripture gibberish isn't going to convert anyone.
That might explain why the early Christians were fed to the lions.
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That might explain why the early Christians were fed to the lions.
Or... it might be because those early Christians represented a threat to the existing political power structure.
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Or... it might be because those early Christians represented a threat to the existing political power structure.
Likely a little of both. They were viewed as a dangerous cult of crazies who were most useful as lion food.
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What are you doing hanging out in an atheist thread? It appears you don't know what it's about. And quoting random scripture gibberish isn't going to convert anyone.
amen to that one.
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Likely a little of both. They were viewed as a dangerous cult of crazies who were most useful as lion food.
christian snickey-snacks.
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> scratches head and decides NOT to read the last eight pages.
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> scratches head and decides NOT to read the last eight pages.
actually it's a good read.
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christian snickey-snacks.
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