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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Good Religion:
A worldview that speaks to greater truths that are not easily articulated through simple
Observation of the material world. It provides structure and meaning and a common, communal frame of reference.
The fundamental idea of Christianity, the idea that you must first allow yourself to die to transcend your suffering, endures because it’s true. Because there’s no nobler act than self sacrifice.
Bad religion:
God as a wish granting Genie who exists to justify your appalling, selfish behaviour. Or win a football game. Or whatever.
I don’t know what God is, but it’s not that.
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Good religion or bad religion
It is a con, that picks on the weakest.
IMO
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Captain James P. DeCOSTE, CD, 18 Sep 1993
Corporal Jean-Marc H. BECHARD, 6 Aug 1993
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