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Question for Theists: The Proble with Thanking God
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RE: Question for Theists: The Proble with Thanking God
October 22, 2015 at 1:52 pm
The thing is, from my own experiences, theists are not really thanking out of love but fear. The thought process seems to be that they are the favoured ones and thus feel the need to suck up or lose those favours. To me the situation seems quite similar to a dictatorship.
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RE: Question for Theists: The Proble with Thanking God - by Aoi Magi - October 22, 2015 at 1:52 pm

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