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Date Posted: 25/06/10 6:01:26pm
Author: Luke
Subject: Re: or, a diametrically opposing view may be truer
In reply to: Peter Eveleigh 's message, "or, a diametrically opposing view may be truer" on 25/06/10 5:43:34pm

Interesting view point, backed up of course by the way Muslim fanatics behave, of course for us believers we believe that the devil has ruine gods original message.

I guess we will see on the day of judgement who is right.

I disagree that religion has always been about control, the original church truly wanted to be as they now claim to be, man has taken it and ruined it, proved by the ja stuff

>>"True servants of the lord would go all out to protect
>>and help repair the vulnerable and abused, and if they
>>found it in theor church, they would expose it"
>
>
>an alternative point of view is that there is no god
>and no devil and the JA are what happens when you use
>religion to control people. It doesn't go sour because
>of the devil but because religious fanaticism
>justifies people behaving in wicked ways which more
>balanced society would not tolerate.
>
>Basically, beign a fanatic gives people licence to be
>themselves. They are free to control, free to hate
>gays and catholics and everyone else. Free to
>subordinate women, free to bully and be mean and even,
>some of them, free to abuse weaker people.
>
>In my view, they are not a perversion of Christianity.
>They are model christians. They are not a blasphemy.
>They are what religion has always been about.

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