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Originally Posted by Manson?
To further what I said about learning the facts, if you look indepth at the three western religions you will be fascinated at the evolution taken place within them to fit political needs. Also the fluidity and subtleness with which their ideologies intertwine with eachother.
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I think one of the most fascinating aspects of religion is the sort of cognitive dissonance of how elements of the religion are politically or culturally created or how one sect or denomination's claims are no different in structure than those of others...yet most of their memberships are ignorant or willfully ignorant of them.
IE: Just how many Christian denominations claim they are the true religion, how many attempts at revival of the 1st century Church are so vastly different (because these groups all seem to assume something is wrong with the modern one)...or even something down to many roots of Catholic tradition being transferred elements of the previous pagan society or simply human nature (Saint worship, icons, relics, etc.). I'm going off random points here, but one of my issues with a lot of organized religion is that they take minor cues that are probably culturally or historically motivated and turn them into strict and defined rules yet they seem to ignore others completely in a selective way. How many Christian women cover their heads when they pray like Corinthians expressly says they should?