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Originally Posted by Playfair
I am a believer and a follower of Jesus Christ, Yeshua. That may not be popular
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Um there are like two and a half billion of you people. In Canada it's well over half (last number I saw was something like 63%) are you really trying to suggest you're some sort of oppressed minority?
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These kinds of things have happened for centuries by people who claim to follow and know God, but who, by their actions, do not represent Him.
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Aye, no
true Scotsman would ever do such a thing.
Oversimplification is kind of unavoidable, but in general, religion itself - all ideologically motivated communities - are inherently flawed as a means of organizing people because they will always produce bad results no matter how innocuous or well-intentioned their adherents may be. Individually, religions are better or worse than others depending on their tenets and what those tenets drive people to do (e.g. filtering water through cheese cloth to avoid killing so much as an insect toward one end of the spectrum, suicide bombing toward the other). This guy didn't get the idea that demonic possession was a real problem that needs to be solved by performing an exorcism out of nowhere.