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Old January 16th, 2011 #11
Fred Streed
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Originally Posted by John Q. Ferguson View Post

I don’t know of any human group that doesn’t have religion or some power structure similar to it. It may be that humans (and to some degree, mud proto-humans) are hard-wired to ask questions about the cause, meaning and purpose of life.
True enough as far as it goes. Dr. W. L. Pierce used to make the point that we have a religious instinct, and that it's highest development was in the top strata of European Man.

But, and I have made this point before, a belief in the absurdities of xtianity is NOT true religion. It is superstition, pure and simple. Xtianity actively discourages the spiritual questing and questioning of true religion. Legions of "heretics" burned and tortured to death leave no room for doubt about xtianity's stance on "questions about the cause, meaning, and purpose of life".