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Originally Posted by Cowperson
In all honesty, that's contradictory.
Since all organized religions rely on the interpretation of its tenets by earthly people, who's to say - besides God or Buddha - which group might actually be right? Is it you? Or is the alleged abusers?
Cowperson
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Yes that is a good point, but my point is that there is a difference between the interpretations of Toothless Joe Evanjelical, Crazy Cleric Al Whoever, and the teachings of established churches.
Individual belief does not equal religion.
Is the Pope preaching hate (yes it has happened in the past, but that is an anomoly, not the rule), what about the Dalli Lamma (Sp?), what about the vast majority of Muslim clerics that stick to what Islam was founded on?
Can Cheese actually show me a Religous body, that is preaching hate, or can he show me small groups who have twisted a religion for their own purposes. That is a huge difference, and he knows it, but chooses to completely ignore this fact.
Yes religion can be abused just like anything else, I'll never debate that, but the basis of every religion that I have even the slightest understanding of, are not hate based as Cheese likes to suggest.