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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (112647)6/4/2009 9:57:45 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541791
 
Remember the sole purpose of a church is to try to teach and motivate its members to behave in ways that would be pleasing to God and to Jesus Christ, and those behaviors are clearly laid out in the Bible and easy to read.

If you think there is a singular, clear interpretation like that then you clearly are a strong adherent of one particular faith to the exclusion of others. Those of us outside that particular mental paradigm see how the same words are interpreted or highlighted or ignored in dozens of different ways by dozens of different churches and faiths, rendering the notion of a single religious or Christian viewpoint fairly moot, for practical political purposes.

I know you will disagree but those are the facts with how religion is practiced by modern society. And as time goes on, the fragmentation and diversity are likely to increase. The big four churches you mention will have small roles in most major US population centers, much as they do today outside their pockets of strong support.
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