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U.S. Janet B.
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:36:05 -0400,
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>On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:11:42 -0700, graham > wrote:
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>>On 2018-01-30 9:00 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-30 10:12 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 1/30/2018 9:54 AM,
wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Very interesting - so that made her good enough to have baby Jesus
>>>>> without actually having sex with a man?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Never was taught that in 12 years of Catholic school.
>>>> I'm too skeptical to be a good follower of any religion anyway.
>>>
>>> Churches have a way of indoctrinating people into believing a lot of
>>> their rhetoric.* Repeating it over and over helps. While they may say
>>> that reciting prayers remind us of our faith and believes, it also acts
>>> to make us believe it is actually true. The Bible is quite clear about
>>> Mary being a Virgin. Granted, most of us get that from modern English
>>> versions of the Bible, and some will argue that the term meant something
>>> else at the time, like that they weren't yet married but were engaged...
>>>
>>> Another common on is about Eve getting sucked into eating that apple.
>>> There is no apple in the Genesis story.* There is no apple tree. It was
>>> the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
>>
>>What it boils down to is that it is all squit, twaddle and bunkum!
>>And just look at all the conflicts and human misery caused by religion.
>
>It's far harder to name wars that were not about religion
In the 'name of religion' -- with some guy at the top stirring the
peasants up so as to help him win the land or power he wants.
A rallying cry always works 'Make America Great Again.'
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