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Originally Posted by Ch40s
Do they?
I, personally, do not know of anyone who believes such a thing. I know avid church goers and people who have studied religion, why don't any of them think such a thing?
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I wrote down a short list of pretty common sentiments that we heard after the hurricane. Only the truly nutty said "got did it to punish the sinners", but people say the other stuff all the time. "My house/life got saved by God", "my relative went to God", "God willing, we'll be okay in the end".
I don't know what the people you know believe, but this is the kind of thing we hear all the time after a something bad happens.
Unless, I guess, what these people mean is "the hurricane happened naturally, but God saved me from it" or "God decided my mom's time was up, while the hurricane was coincidentally happening" or "the hurricane happened, and God had nothing to do with it, but hopefully he'll help us out now that it's gone".[/quote]
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Originally Posted by Ch40s
No, I believe the people who take it seriously are entitled to their beliefs and interpretations. Perhaps if they are using their interpretation for some sort of wrong-doing or fanaticism then they may be criticized. If the Vatican stood by Creationism yet were passive and meek about it, why should we bully them into believing otherwise? Why do we want to insult everyone affiliated with a certain belief when only a handful of said believers are causing trouble?
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Of course they are entitled to their beliefs and interpretations. So am I, and I'm also entitled to criticize whatever I want to criticize. "It's their belief, so you can't criticize it" doesn't cut it.
And again, nobody is being insulted, and the Catholic church is denying literal creationism, so it's kind of confusing that you keep talking about how it is okay that they believe in it.
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Originally Posted by Ch40s
Certainly these issues should be addressed, but do we really have to generalize and persecute those who are of the same affiliation but are not part of the issue?
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Who exactly is being persecuted? Generalized -- okay, maybe.