is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs

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is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs

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RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs

March 21, 2014 at 1:00 pm (This post was last modified: March 21, 2014 at 1:37 pm by Anomalocaris.)

(March 21, 2014 at 12:56 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: If Christians actually followed what Jesus said in the bible, like helping the poor instead of amassing wealth, living in peace, and forgiving people, and loving everyone as they love themselves, that would be healthy

Let's not confuse the ideal aesthetic appeal of a belief with whether it is healthy. Such an idealized version of christianity would not be very healthy for its own followers. It would contribut much to their being massacred, enslaved, or forceably converted, by the historic version of christainity, unless the idealized version were to make a mockery of itself by forcebly suppressing the rise of the many possible equivalents of the historic version of christianity.

What seems good is not good if it does not help itself prosper in the real world.

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is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Phatt Matt s - March 21, 2014 at 9:05 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Phatt Matt s - March 21, 2014 at 12:31 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Anomalocaris - March 21, 2014 at 12:51 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Phatt Matt s - March 21, 2014 at 12:52 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Doubting Thomas - March 21, 2014 at 12:56 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Anomalocaris - March 21, 2014 at 1:00 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Hezekiah - March 21, 2014 at 10:02 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Faith No More - March 22, 2014 at 12:01 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Phatt Matt s - March 22, 2014 at 1:12 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Hezekiah - March 22, 2014 at 12:33 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Phatt Matt s - March 21, 2014 at 9:46 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Fromper - March 21, 2014 at 2:18 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by xr34p3rx - March 21, 2014 at 2:47 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 2:21 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Napoléon - March 21, 2014 at 2:23 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 2:26 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Wyrd of Gawd - March 24, 2014 at 1:29 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Hezekiah - March 24, 2014 at 12:18 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by OGirly - March 21, 2014 at 4:25 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by tor - March 21, 2014 at 4:28 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Phatt Matt s - March 21, 2014 at 10:43 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Chas - March 21, 2014 at 11:09 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by psychoslice - March 22, 2014 at 1:32 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Alex K - March 22, 2014 at 3:37 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Zidneya - March 24, 2014 at 12:22 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by tor - March 24, 2014 at 1:36 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Wyrd of Gawd - March 24, 2014 at 2:04 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by tor - March 24, 2014 at 2:05 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by psychoslice - March 25, 2014 at 1:22 am

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by Chas - March 25, 2014 at 12:15 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by psychoslice - March 25, 2014 at 5:46 pm

RE: is there a such thing as healthy religious beliefs - by The Valkyrie - March 25, 2014 at 5:47 pm

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