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Why is religion in the business of moral policing?
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RE: Why is religion in the business of moral policing?
Your beliefs amount to poorly written sci-fi.  There is no soul, lol.  This was our earliest and most blundering attempt to explain what it was that animates life - what seperates living things from non-living things, and, unfortunately, we didn't have the tools to either identify or describe metabolism at the time. At least it got one thing right, flesh and blood can't inherent the "kingdom of god" - there's no kingdom to inherit. Those are merely the dreams of a poor and impoverished people yearning for a better life in the face of the crushing realization that this life will never -be- that life, for them.

You know, for a guy who doesn't truck with fundies...you're quite the literalist. I wonder what your opinion of the colored stick theory of animal husbandry might be? / shrugs
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RE: Why is religion in the business of moral policing? - by The Grand Nudger - August 3, 2017 at 12:08 pm

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