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Bucky

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20. When you consider the influence that religion has had in developing ideas about...

Reply to Dawson Leery (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 21, 2021, 06:03 PM

Oct 2021

bringing peace to the world, expanding the desire to investigate nature and cultivate scientific learning, the establishment of ideas of humanism, individualism, natural civil and political rights of citizens, the cultivation of ethical codes, the reform of harsh and cruel legal systems, the establishment of peaceful trade relations and cultural exchange between formerly warrying cultures and societies, and the importance of doing charitable works in other parts of the world, it's pretty clear that religion has done far more good than harm across human history.

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This is what happens to you when you read the Bible... [View all] Bucky Oct 2021 OP

Thanks for posting WA-03 Democrat Oct 2021 #1

Well worth watching. I've never understood how anyone could read the New Testament highplainsdem Oct 2021 #2

lewis black has a bit where he says evangelicals are basically jews. mopinko Oct 2021 #5

Makes sense. They love the parts about SMITING. Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2021 #27

the def love the vengeful god. mopinko Oct 2021 #28

:) That's why Republican Jesus was developed, to align with RW politics. Hortensis Oct 2021 #11

I have read the Torah, Bible, and Quran. Dawson Leery Oct 2021 #3

When you consider the influence that religion has had in developing ideas about... Bucky Oct 2021 #20

I've only read a little bit of the Old Testament and a little of the New Testament msfiddlestix Oct 2021 #30

The Bible is like the Mueller Report Ohioboy Oct 2021 #4

It seems the majority of White Evangelicals are hypocrites StarryNite Oct 2021 #6

Exactly! nt oasis Oct 2021 #9

You see the over 300 errors and conflicts that no amount of Biblical Inerrancy can explain away? TheBlackAdder Oct 2021 #7

I see no reason why liderals or Progressives are required to be faithless Vogon_Glory Oct 2021 #8

Whoever said liberals or progressives are required to be faithless? nt. Mariana Oct 2021 #12

Several posters in this thread are exhibiting the prejudice that Christianity is GOPism Bucky Oct 2021 #21

Oh, I definitely agree with you there Vogon_Glory Oct 2021 #23

The Christians of today are a completely new breed of cat for sure bluestarone Oct 2021 #10

Are they? Mariana Oct 2021 #14

I remember Christians would bluestarone Oct 2021 #15

Many Christians still do that. Mariana Oct 2021 #16

Well then i mean only on bluestarone Oct 2021 #17

Honestly, not really Buckeyeblue Oct 2021 #25

I read the entire bible. Different versions too... RFCalifornia Oct 2021 #13

k for later lindysalsagal Oct 2021 #18

I remember Jerry Falwell twisting the passage about rich people, camels, and the eye of a needle. Midnight Writer Oct 2021 #19

I keep on wondering why Evangelicals would vote for someone sakabatou Oct 2021 #22

IMHO: These believers are starting to think critically, and so will eventually either leave lindysalsagal Oct 2021 #24

I have long identified as a Christian but not an Evangelical hamsterjill Oct 2021 #26

I'll take allies wherever we can find them Silent3 Oct 2021 #29