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Freedom of Religion
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RE: Freedom of Religion
(February 4, 2012 at 2:10 pm)Abracadabra Wrote: What I see is extreme paranoia toward anything that might even remotely suggest that there might be a spiritual essence to reality.


The critical error in your argument is that your spirituality should be the result of reality, not a way to fake it.

What you are arguing is that if a person can imagine the world in a particular way, then it is not unreasonable for him to believe in it under the guise of spirituality. Even if that world cannot be shown to be true, even if the very possible existence of that world contradicts what we know, it is still okay to believe in it.

The mistake is, here you are telling someone that it is okay to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time. That it is okay to believe that the world he imagined exists and at the same time, believe that its existence is impossible. Or even worse, that it is okay to let of of belief in the real world in favor of an imaginary one.

That is not spirituality. That is religion and there can be no more efficient way to murder a man's spirit than that.
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Freedom of Religion - by rubikscube - January 9, 2012 at 7:35 pm
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by padraic - January 9, 2012 at 7:43 pm
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Violet - February 13, 2012 at 3:25 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Blam! - January 9, 2012 at 7:44 pm
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by Anomalocaris - January 9, 2012 at 8:11 pm
RE: Freedom of Religion - by rubikscube - January 10, 2012 at 5:16 pm
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by houseofcantor - January 11, 2012 at 12:44 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Doubting Thomas - January 11, 2012 at 7:07 pm
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Erinome - January 12, 2012 at 12:35 am
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by Doubting Thomas - January 12, 2012 at 2:28 pm
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Epimethean - January 12, 2012 at 11:53 pm
RE: Freedom of Religion - by houseofcantor - January 13, 2012 at 2:49 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by The Grand Nudger - January 13, 2012 at 9:12 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Perhaps - January 17, 2012 at 12:33 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by houseofcantor - January 17, 2012 at 8:59 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Nebuloso - January 27, 2012 at 6:54 am
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by Mitja - January 27, 2012 at 5:26 pm
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by reverendjeremiah - January 31, 2012 at 4:09 pm
RE: Freedom of Religion - by padraic - January 28, 2012 at 7:05 pm
RE: Freedom of Religion - by CliveStaples - January 30, 2012 at 10:11 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by The Grand Nudger - January 30, 2012 at 10:20 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Epimethean - January 30, 2012 at 10:21 am
RE: Freedom of Religion - by Mitja - January 31, 2012 at 3:18 pm
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by Abracadabra - January 31, 2012 at 4:14 pm
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by Faith No More - February 1, 2012 at 6:01 pm
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RE: Freedom of Religion - by Epimethean - February 4, 2012 at 3:12 am
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