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To: dougSF30 who wrote (119759)	7/9/2000 10:56:30 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575380

OT:Doug read my reply to Bill. I already agree with you that their are those who use Religion to scam people, but I disagree that you can lump everyone into one group. True Christians mutually agree about following scriptures which have evidence to back them up going back thousands of years (Dead Sea Scrolls, pieces of Noah's Ark,etc.) There is a great danger if you are following another's person interpretation of Scripture if you aren't doing the research yourself. I can sum up the TWO rules that Jesus gave that eclipse all other laws. 1. Love the Lord you God with all your might. 2. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the laws and Prophets hang on these two commandments. If you follow these, you don't kill, steal, rape, etc etc. My belief is anyone not teaching Love and Truth from the New Testament, must not be True Christian. Thankyou for your peaceful Discussion. Milo

To: dougSF30 who wrote (119759)	7/9/2000 10:07:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575380

OT - Once you surrender rational thought, and pledge blind faith to follow a particular myth, you can be coerced into doing great evils by those in power within the particular cult. Surrendering rational thought is not necessary in order to agree with the beliefs of a particular religion and respect and follow its tenants. With the possible exception of certain fundimenatalistic Islamic countries or people who join small cults and isolate themselves completely from society at large, organized religion has little ability to coerce individuals. IT has the ability to influence them and some of the influence you might consider negative, but for all of its influence organized religion does not have great power that it can directly apply to control and coerce. Religious ideas can have a strong effect on people. This effect can be positive or negative. When a religion is organized this positive or negative effect will impact on a greater number or people. Any idea that strongly effects and inspires a great number or people will almost invariably have some negative consequences and will also be co-opted by some to server their own selfish ends. These consequences do not automatically mean that the specific religious ideas or organization is an evil thing. The fact that people use religious ideas and organizations for selfish ends does not mean that organized religions are a sham. Tim