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To: Secret Agent Man
why have any faith if you don’t believe it’s the right one? that’s moronic otherwise.

Certainly all of us who adhere to any of the traditional forms of any of the Abrahamic religions would not adhere to our faith if we did not believe it to be the truth. (We Orthodox Christians, for instance, sing "we have found the True Faith, worshipping the undivided Trinity" at the end of every Liturgy.) However, adherents of syncretistic religions like Hinduism or Unitarian Universalism, have the odd (to my mind indefensible) view that "all religions are ways to God" or "all religions are true", and seemingly adhere to their chosen faith as a matter of taste or aesthetics.

Personally, I'm offended they didn't mention the Orthodox Church as an extremist group. I think we're much more extreme than any of the Western variants of Christianity.

11 posted on 04/06/2013 8:34:52 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David

You’ll get your turn in the can but for the moment THEY, and we do know who THEY are, don’t know about the Orthodox.


12 posted on 04/06/2013 8:37:12 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: The_Reader_David

I was hoping for the LCMS to be mentioned by name. But to the average atheist, we are the same as Catholics. I suspect the Orthodox are also.


30 posted on 04/07/2013 4:49:39 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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