(November 16, 2011 at 3:51 pm)J K Wrote:1. Yes. Organizing and classifying people, beliefs and perceptions; inspiring people; postulating answers to the unknown; defining god/ people relationship to god.
2.While Religion historically has been tied to politics, worldly power/ wealth or societal structures, I feel is it an improper use of Religion as it's purpose isn't for secular/ material success/power.
3. Not anytime in the forseeable future.
4. What's true always matters and is never irrelevant, IMO. Seeing as there is no objective "material proof" that any one is more true than another, it would be best to keep the truth to what's testable on the personal level and therfore subjectively true and useful.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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