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Is Religion a tool?
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RE: Is Religion a tool?
December 5, 2010 at 11:26 am
(December 5, 2010 at 11:18 am)Welsh cake Wrote: [snip]religion can be quite useful indeed, but to be fair, the whole "god" aspect is unnecessarily redundant to achieving this end, writing a load of Harry Potter novels seems to have the same effect.

Ha! True, but to be fair, the same can be said of Star Trek, Star Wars, X-Files, Anime, Comic Books, etc. People, in general, have a strong desire to belong, and any community that forms around something that person likes (or believes in) will have the potential of sucking them in.
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Is Religion a tool?

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Is Religion a tool? - by Marx - December 5, 2010 at 10:41 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Paul the Human - December 5, 2010 at 11:05 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Marx - December 5, 2010 at 11:36 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Rwandrall - December 8, 2010 at 2:22 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Anomalocaris - December 8, 2010 at 2:42 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Rwandrall - December 8, 2010 at 4:04 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Welsh cake - December 5, 2010 at 11:18 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Paul the Human - December 5, 2010 at 11:26 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Marx - December 5, 2010 at 11:41 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Welsh cake - December 5, 2010 at 11:38 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Paul the Human - December 5, 2010 at 11:51 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Anomalocaris - December 5, 2010 at 1:32 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Minimalist - December 5, 2010 at 2:56 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Welsh cake - December 6, 2010 at 4:35 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Marx - December 6, 2010 at 4:40 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by downbeatplumb - December 8, 2010 at 3:51 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Anomalocaris - December 8, 2010 at 6:26 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Anomalocaris - December 6, 2010 at 4:38 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by lilyannerose - December 6, 2010 at 4:57 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Marx - December 6, 2010 at 5:02 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by lilyannerose - December 7, 2010 at 9:30 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by LastPoet - December 7, 2010 at 6:21 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Anomalocaris - December 7, 2010 at 6:34 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by paintpooper - December 8, 2010 at 2:48 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by padraic - December 8, 2010 at 3:47 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Paul the Human - December 8, 2010 at 6:21 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Rwandrall - December 8, 2010 at 6:36 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Paul the Human - December 8, 2010 at 6:54 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Rwandrall - December 8, 2010 at 9:09 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Minimalist - December 8, 2010 at 6:55 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Nitsuj - December 8, 2010 at 6:59 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by padraic - December 8, 2010 at 10:47 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by HigherLvlofThinking - December 8, 2010 at 9:15 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Rwandrall - December 8, 2010 at 9:27 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Autumnlicious - December 9, 2010 at 12:38 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by theVOID - December 9, 2010 at 1:17 am
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Anomalocaris - December 10, 2010 at 2:18 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by hellfire - December 10, 2010 at 6:32 pm
RE: Is Religion a tool? - by Lethe - December 10, 2010 at 1:19 pm

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