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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
So long as your religion has a long tradition of respecting homosexuals, believing in women's equality, supporting birth control in all forms, embracing a woman's right to choose, encouraging free thought and spends more money helping the impoverished rather than fancy buildings, then I say live and let live. But should your religion falter on any of those points, then of course I'm going to claim that your religion is faulty and not feel the least amount of guilt for saying so.
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Why does any such religion require this impossibly narrow "long tradition" to qualify as valid? You do realise that your above description applies to only an extremely slim segment of virtually all civilisations, and from only a very recent period of time, right? In essence, you've pretty much disqualified every form of human culture as "faulty" by virtue of past sins.