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Religion

djean111

(14,255 posts) Mon Apr 7, 2014, 09:16 AM Apr 2014

Looks to me like all religions have weirdnesses - all of them.

It is when they seek to inflict their individual weirdness on everyone else that things get bad.

Why would anyone really care about Mormon theology? How does it hurt anyone else if Mormons believe their god has a body and that they will be like their god? Or they will go to different planets instead of a heaven with streets of gold?
It is their ability to inflict their ideas about gay marriage on everyone else that is the danger. That sort of thing.
And, of course, the not paying taxes thing.

As an atheist, it has always amused me how religions don't see how they may look weird to atheists and other religions - they are in a bubble of sorts. Christianity seems weird to me, too. Glass houses and all that.