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Old 08-19-2010, 06:24 PM   #223
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Furthermore, the choice of religion or set of beliefs is not always the same in every context. I would argue that it is conceivably much more difficult to "choose" to adopt a form of secular rationalism in a Muslim country. Our own cultural gravitation towards secularism has rendered this choice a much more natural one, and not necessarily one that each of us would make in a different context.
That's true. If I had been raised in a more liberal branch of Christianity rather than the word of faith evangelical movement I wouldn't have had the cognitive dissonance of inerrancy and reality and might have changed differently.. leaning more towards deism or something.
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