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To: Vive ut Vivas
One of my main problems with theology. Everyone is not a bad person. Most people aren't bad people. What is the use in telling everyone they're bad?

Because it keeps the followers in line. If a person believes that they are bad and a religion offers a way of making the person less bad, the leaders of the religion have a way to control the minions.

474 posted on 08/02/2005 11:02:52 AM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: JeffAtlanta
Because it keeps the followers in line. If a person believes that they are bad and a religion offers a way of making the person less bad, the leaders of the religion have a way to control the minions.

Man, you're clueless.
482 posted on 08/02/2005 11:12:11 AM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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