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Old 07-29-2010, 07:55 PM   #923 (permalink)
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So you agree, the names aren't important, and getting the stories right isn't important either. If God is a real thing, and I think it is, people should run into it as they go around, like they do with wind, trees, and other people.

Distraction is the enemy. Now why would that be?
The problem is that religions are something more than theism. They also include a group of dogmas as part of their own nature. We can remove more and more "layers" (like in an onion) until only theism remains. Or something similar to what Thomas Jefferson thought, for example. Or even return to Aristotle and the purest philosophical idea of God (you know, the "unmoved mover"...). But then it wouldn't be the same thing anymore. A Christian (or a Jew or a Muslim) is a theist, but a theist is not necessarily a Christian.
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