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- From: gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo)
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- Subject: Re: Why? (was Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER)
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- Date: 20 Jan 93 22:41:18 GMT
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- writes in part, replying to Matt Ivaliotes:
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- >> >|> >What is there that prevents you from being a Christian?
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- >I used to be one, then I thought better of it. Religion has its roots
- >in ignorance and superstition. Over time, religions have built
- >incredibly convoluted and implausible scenarios in support of the basic
- >premise: the existence of god. Followers are required to believe, lest
- >they be condemned to eternal damnation. The brainwashing artifices used
- >are among others, faith, dogmas, ostracism, discrimination, persecution,
- >etc. Kind of reminds me of that tenet of nazi propaganda: the bigger
- >the lie, the more people are inclined to believe it!
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- Another view is that religion has its origins in light and truth, but,
- the human bearers of it being human as they are, over the ages it becomes
- encrusted with corruptions and superstitions, and also becomes sclerotic
- and hardened, closing itself off to the new understanding and enlightenment
- required by the human soul as it grows and evolves.
-
- The difference between true religion and Nazism is that with the former, even
- if its form has become as brittle and crumbled as a dead leaf, you can still
- detect traces of the once living form -- even it the fullness of its original
- intricacy and integrity cannot always be clearly discerned -- whereas the
- latter was constructed out of artificial, dead substances - lies - in the first
- place and was twisted and ugly from the beginning. The living plant that
- ages and dies always brings forth a new seed from which it can rise again
- in renewed freshness. The one that was dead to begin with must be construc-
- ted again by force of lies, by those who serve the "father of lies".
-
- Just another view.
-
- Gerry Palo (73237.2006@compuserve.com)
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