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Thread #87904   Message #1654047
Posted By: autolycus
23-Jan-06 - 06:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: Religion=good folk doing bad things?
Subject: RE: BS: Religion=good folk doing bad things?
I think the thread title is in a (forgive me) shambles. So why worry about it.?
Some, like Ron and Jerry, seem to me not to have read the title as it is,correctly.
Firstly, it doesn't use the word Christianity but the word religion. Misreading the one for the other has led them to be defensive of Christanity unnecessarily. Jews and Muslims can make the same false move.
Secondly, nowhere does the title say that religion doesn't = good folk doing good things. You require an either/or cast of mind to think the title ONLY means that religion only = good folk doing bad things.

The original thought of Dawkins appears to have come a cropper, so why worry on this site?

When I,as a Jew, read some of the New Testament, I started to see some of what He was essentially saying. In terms of life today, some of it was rather radical. Believers seem to have a rather erratic relationship to essential truths of their RESPECTIVE RELIGIONS. Then again it has seemed to me that organised RELIGION depends on INTERPRETATION of the holy writings.
"Man is a political animal" (Aristotle), and interpretation is one form of "being political", in the sense of picking and choosing.

Do all believers love their enemies? If so, where does ANY war fit in?

Auto.