03-06-2008, 08:15 PM | #31 |
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You never miss a chance to take a swipe at Utah.
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Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!! Religion rises inevitably from our apprehension of our own death. To give meaning to meaninglessness is the endless quest of all religion. When death becomes the center of our consciousness, then religion authentically begins. Of all religions that I know, the one that most vehemently and persuasively defies and denies the reality of death is the original Mormonism of the Prophet, Seer and Revelator, Joseph Smith. |
03-06-2008, 08:17 PM | #32 |
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03-06-2008, 08:17 PM | #33 |
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Ex, you're just plain not smart enough to engage in this gadfly role you seem to have undertaken lately. Stick to the things you are qualified to do. Peel a potato for example.
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I hope those ideas are beginning to change, and most in this forum seem to have gotten past such silliness, but it really can be quite damaging to live in a culture that believes those things. |
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I kept waiting for them the say that wives needed to help their husbands in providing, but it didn't come. Maybe that comes in part two.
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Are there any studies correlating religious populations with mental illness? I would expect there to be higher rates of mental illness in all religious populations.
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On the other side I wouldn't consider Ted Bundy, Hitler and Stalin as religious people. It is a good question though as far as tendencies go. |
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