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Old 11-13-05, 11:07 PM   #50
Abraham
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Default Re: Religion, who cares?

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Originally Posted by Fish
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Originally Posted by Abraham
The poll is so poorly worded that it hardly leaves anybody who is serious about his religion a choice.
You could as well have asked: "do you vote to be considered stupid by me or not?"
Usually the formulation of polls like this - we've had more - characterizes the knowledge and objectivity of the author more than anything else. Calling "Zionism" a religion just proves that point.

Were the question: "Religion, who cares?" I would have voted: "Yes!".
I am a convinced (Protestant) Christian and aware of the cultural luggage it provides me with. I stand in a Western European 'Judeo-Christian' tradition of which I am proud. I am also very aware that humans are by definition religious creatures anyway. I accept the limitations of the human mind to understand the whole creation. I also recognize the challenge for us humans to learn, educate and think...
Leave me out please. I WAS cristian by education, not by definition.
I didn't say all humans are Christians, but religious. Our knowledge is based on presumptions, a trancedental leap of faith in God, a god, Nature, the Unknown, Science, ourselves, you name it. How can I leave you out...?
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