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Galraedia

(5,025 posts) Thu Apr 18, 2013, 09:12 PM Apr 2013

In the Name of God

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In the Name of God (Original Post) Galraedia Apr 2013 OP

When will we learn? RC Apr 2013 #1

We were taught 2,500 years ago and again 2,000 years ago RVN VET Apr 2013 #2

Religion, b757pilot Apr 2013 #3

RC

(25,592 posts)

1. When will we learn?

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Thu Apr 18, 2013, 10:59 PM

Apr 2013

Most of our evil is done in the name of our gods.
Why do the omnipotent gods need our help to do their dirty work?

RVN VET

(492 posts)

2. We were taught 2,500 years ago and again 2,000 years ago

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:23 AM

Apr 2013

and again and again every 500 years or so.

But we respond -- always have responded -- by embracing Love and killing for it.

The peace makers are the minority among mankind, they are the sports and freaks of a species that lusts for its own destruction.

b757pilot

(16 posts)

3. Religion,

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:49 PM

Apr 2013

So look forward to the day we cant put ALL religious myths to bed. Or at least on the shelf with other mythologies.

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