"the practice of the Eucharist (consuming bread and wine, the literal drinking of blood and eating the flesh of Christ )"<br><br>Transubstantiation is not...
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cathartic_i
Jun 2, 2001 1:46 am
"Vlad was not a<br> vampire; he was far worse. He was a Christian."<br><br>I could easily point out here that Pol Pot, Mao, Lenin, and Stalin were all ...
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cathartic_i
Jun 2, 2001 2:16 am
"Consider also that Christianity claims that men lived over 900 years (Adam, Methuselah. etc.),"<br><br>There are two competing explanations of this: People of...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 3, 2001 7:55 pm
"is how in all its history Christianity has killed at most 17 million"<br><br>Uh, "try again". There's the Inquisitions, the Crusades, the genocide of American...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 3, 2001 7:57 pm
I was simply pointing out something I found on a site. I found it interesting that Dracula was based on an actual person, more than the idea he was Christian....
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 3, 2001 7:59 pm
Like I said, I didn't write it, I just shared it....
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guerrilla_us
Jun 3, 2001 10:39 pm
<<Uh, "try again". There's the Inquisitions, the Crusades, the genocide of American Indians, the Salem Witch trials, the Dark Ages, and so ...
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guerrilla_us
Jun 3, 2001 10:45 pm
<<I was simply pointing out something I found on a site. I found it interesting that Dracula was based on an actual person, more than the idea he was...
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cathartic_i
Jun 3, 2001 11:21 pm
The Inquisition and the Crusades were both indefensible, and no one today argues otherwise. In fact, the Catholic Church has apologized for both. <br><br>The ...
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cathartic_i
Jun 3, 2001 11:24 pm
"I found it interesting that Dracula was based on an actual person, more than the idea he was Christian."<br><br>We often like to say "Bastard X was a...
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cathartic_i
Jun 3, 2001 11:32 pm
That should read "(he and other prominent Catholic clergy were strong supporters of the anti-soviet Solidarity movement in Poland)."<br><br>My point was that ...
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guerrilla_us
Jun 3, 2001 11:54 pm
"We often like to say 'Bastard X was a Christian, so Christians are all bastards.' Clearly, Guerrilla is a bastard, but I hope he is an exception to the ...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 6, 2001 4:46 am
>>"I was simply pointing out something I found on a site. I found it interesting that Dracula was based on an actual person, more than the idea he was...
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guerrilla_us
Jun 6, 2001 11:44 pm
"I realize that, and I do admit when I'm wrong. But I think there's just been a misunderstanding."<br><br>You bastard!! I was hoping you'd call me dirty names ...
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guerrilla_us
Jun 6, 2001 11:45 pm
"that organized religion and the ignorance it promotes can be dangerous."<br><br>Is it dangerous or not?<br><br>"Not evil, and not just Christianity, but that ...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 7, 2001 2:20 am
"You bastard!! I was hoping you'd call me dirty names or something."<br><br>lol Sorry to disappoint you.<br><br>"Are you saying that it is interesting that...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 7, 2001 3:07 am
>>"that organized religion and the ignorance it promotes can be dangerous."<br><br>Is it dangerous or not?"<<<br><br>When it promotes ignorance,...
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cathartic_i
Jun 8, 2001 6:30 pm
"With religion, all it takes is that religion<br> scriptures saying, or reportedly saying, that these people are bad, and one's god to command the...
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cathartic_i
Jun 8, 2001 6:38 pm
"When it promotes ignorance, such as all who do not believe in a god or our God are filthy animals, yes religion is dangerous."<br><br>Agreed.<br><br>"People...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 8, 2001 10:11 pm
"As I have shown, many of the deaths attributed to religious differences in history were actually about politics."<br><br>But what I'm saying is gov't can more...
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guerrilla_us
Jun 8, 2001 10:14 pm
"Yes the poor economy was blamed on the 'evil' Jews, and the mass murder of millions of them really wasn't about economic stability, but it took more than just...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 8, 2001 10:24 pm
"The fact that most Christians don't study scripture can't be blamed on the church itself."<br><br>No, but I can't remember anything ever being said in church...
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guerrilla_us
Jun 8, 2001 11:00 pm
"When it promotes ignorance, such as all who do not believe in a god or our God are filthy animals, yes religion is dangerous."<br><br>What if it says everyone...
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guerrilla_us
Jun 8, 2001 11:08 pm
"Nothing as controversial as there being many different authors over a very long period of time..."<br><br>Huh? Who denies...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 8, 2001 11:32 pm
"Are you saying that the number of scapegoats is important?"<br><br>What I'm saying is things are more easily justified to people when by religion than by ...
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vehement_rancor_dclxvi
vehement_ran...
Jun 9, 2001 12:01 am
"What if it says everyone is a filthy animal? Does it promote ignorance then?"<br><br>Well we are animals, and we tend to be filthy in some manner. But what I...
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guerrilla_us
Jun 9, 2001 12:15 am
I'll skip over the stuff we've already talked about and reply to the interesting parts.<br><br>I am getting a sense from your posts that you see churches as ...
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cathartic_i
Jun 9, 2001 12:17 am
"Nothing as controversial as there being many different authors over a very long period of time,<br>contradictions and editing done has ever been addressed by...
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cathartic_i
Jun 9, 2001 12:27 am
It has been offered that religion has killed millions upon millions of people in the history of the world, and thus, goes the argument, religion must be false....
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cathartic_i
Jun 9, 2001 12:46 am
"not marrying someone of a different belief,"<br><br>Marriages between people of different religious beliefs rarely work out. Where is Johny going to go to...
