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To: James C. Bennett
I tend to agree with much of your post, but I'm not sure what this means:

None whose dogmatic elements have equivalents in other faiths

Is it the dogma part or are you saying your beliefs aren't found in any religion? All or in part?

1,425 posted on 02/16/2011 12:35:50 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr; kosta50

What I meant by that point concerning dogma is that if there are rival faiths that can compete on basic morality and share similar morals, then it is a case of independent civilisations developing societal rules on their own, and arriving at a commonality due to similar societal problems faced by them. This, by itself, is an indication that societies invent religions. No faith that I’ve studied so far can claim bragging rights to morals that benefit society and aren’t found in other faiths, directly or indirectly.

The Golden Rule would be one such standard of comparison. Practically every religion on Earth, in spite of having diametrically-opposed dogmatic characteristics, have a form of the Golden Rule within their tenets.


1,427 posted on 02/16/2011 12:55:55 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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