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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (181066)	2/2/2012 6:27:38 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542015

That is all possible, IMO. I think the idea of compassionate spirituality is wonderful. The big problem is when religion is used to counter science and reason, burn witches, subjugate women and prevent gay marriage, etc. What makes all of this so tricky, is that religion has been used to prevent science, freedom of thought and subjugation of people for milenna. And we are just now freeing ourselves from that tyranny. So many are still raw from the centuries of heresy being punishable by torture and death. In Islam if one wants to change religions, as I understand it, it is punishable by death even today? Once a person is free to think freely, then it is safe to go back in and look at spirituality,IMO. One must also remember that 99% of all people on earth are the same religion as their parents and culture, so that tells one that people are not making decisions regarding religion based on objective thought. That is a statistical certainty.