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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Sat, 11 Mar 2000 02:22:43 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38C9898F.27C595B8@voyager.net>...
> Go ahead and try to prove that America/Atheism/Capitalism (I shan't
> defend Capitol-ism as I think there isn't much good coming from the US
> Capitol these days :-) ) consistently produces flawed people. *Produces*
> mind you, not just suffers to exist. My assertion, now that you've
> pushed me into making it instead of letting sleeping dogs lie, is that
> christianity is indeed a system that produces flawed people,
> consistently, because to practice it is to be morally flawed.
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> That's right, it's actively bad for people to be christian and the more
> christian they are, the worse off they are. Further, it's actively bad
> for a society to be influenced by christianity and the more influenced
> it is, the worse off it is. IMHO.
I guess it really depends on one's definition of Christian. By my definition
of Christian, I see people who were quite devout who have done good for the
world, and continue to provide a good influence to the world. Of course many
Christians would denounce these same people as non-Christian, and even many
non-Christians would not consider them Christian.
Frank
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| (...) Cite, please. The rational evidence pointed FOR it being round, it was the christian church that was suppressing it to enforce a flat earth, terracentric viewpoint, as I recall. As far back as we can go in history, we have evidence that people (...) (27 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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