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To: Elsie

Then it is not a religion. Religion needs something external to which to relate its practitioner - be it a god or an idol. If everything is wrapped up in me, then there are no externals left. And then a religion needs an organizational apparatus - the priests and the flock to be fleeced. Your description demonstrates their complete absence, both on ideological and organizational levels. Thus it is not a religion. Q.E.D.


228 posted on 10/19/2006 11:04:53 AM PDT by GSlob
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To: GSlob
Religion needs something external to which to relate its practitioner

Why?

275 posted on 10/19/2006 4:58:26 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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