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Sweeney

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12. It also justifies a lot of their misery and some times denies their rights to justice

Reply to kelliekat44 (Reply #7)

Thu Dec 25, 2014, 04:08 PM

Dec 2014

That is all. Except, that religions all begin in the recognition of power external, and attempts to give people power to turn the power of nature to their ends with spell, prayers, ritual, or sacrifice. Organized religion holds us as entirely powerless. Even the term Christian means slave of Christ. And most of all you have to look forward to death to have life. What is wrong with the lives we have here and now? Am I suppose to wish or work this life away to have another?

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