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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Jesus! That whole 6000 year old theory is over blown by the media, it is a fundamentalist ideology, hardly popular amongst most christians...
My point is people kill people guns dont...people oppress people religion doesnt..
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Hey, I have a friend who is christian. Never bothered me until about a month ago when I discovered that he indeed believes the earth is 7000 years old.
And as for the 'people oppress people, not religion', I respectfully disagree. The catholic church is entirely based on oppression. Whether you want to discuss their systematic oppression of women or whether you would rather discuss how they force their own priests into celebacy to retain their estate. How about the fact that they take and take and take from their often very poor followers to build giant buildings with with very little use or versatility. AND they all send money to a central organization (vatican) to pay for what exactly? Bibles? Ok.
So what is your argument here? That because it is people doing it, it is not religion's fault? So what is the point of religion? A moral guideline? A sense of hope? How can religion be good when it's good, but the fault of men when it is not doing good? That's a total cop out.