You can grow up in the Christian faith without knowing a lot about its history and origins, because the myths told to believers are not rigorously tested against the latest historical methods and sources
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It's one very strong thing I do not understand about overseas folks - making their religiousness as a personal identity. Because I think all of the time "you identify with a group which killed millions in the past, which always got in the way of letting people live however they want, which still would order people around how to live if it could still do as it likes as a political force - and you keep telling me about your sentimental wheelings and dealings how important it is for society and politics to take that into account". I mean... it's like those people only see the colorful social rituals Christian church does nowadays and therefore mistake it for harmless. And always having been harmless. But that exactly is how Christian church recruits new church members in the present day! By convincing people "here you get a socially warm atmosphere, here we have meaning and group activity for you, and here no-one betrays each other like among those heretic non-believers". Baiting...It's like a gullible mind letting itself be convinced of
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Because I think all of the time "you identify with a group which killed millions in the past, which always got in the way of letting people live however they want, which still would order people around how to live if it could still do as it likes as a political force - and you keep telling me about your sentimental wheelings and dealings how important it is for society and politics to take that into account".
I mean... it's like those people only see the colorful social rituals Christian church does nowadays and therefore mistake it for harmless. And always having been harmless.
But that exactly is how Christian church recruits new church members in the present day! By convincing people "here you get a socially warm atmosphere, here we have meaning and group activity for you, and here no-one betrays each other like among those heretic non-believers". Baiting...It's like a gullible mind letting itself be convinced of ( ... )
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