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Must religion be logical?

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Legend
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08-09-2006 1:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by Brian
08-09-2006 9:32 AM

Re: Even snake oil needs to be convincing
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We only have Paul's word that anything happened on the Damascus road, and Israel was a ripe place to find a gullible audience. Just think, they had that guy withthe beard who said he would die and return very very soon to save them, but when that guy obviously lied, there was an opening for another charasmatic dude, Paul probably couldn't believe his luck.
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actually, Paul's semi-mystical theology fitted very well within the Greco-Roman world too, as it reflected a lot of their myths and traditions (resurrection, sacrifice, woman as the cause of evil)
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If only he wasn't preaching against homosexuality they'd have proclaimed him a living God!
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"In life, you have to face that some days you'll be the pigeon and some days you'll be the statue."
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09-25-2006 8:18 AM 		Reply to: Message 54 by Woodsy
09-24-2006 4:04 PM

God of the gaps
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How about the "I don't know" position? I suspect we would all believe a lot less "crap" if only it wasn't so hard to say "I don't know", and wait patiently for more information. Personally, I suspect that this is the origion for much of religion.
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Spot on. It's called the 'God of the gaps' mentality. Anything we can't (currently) explain we attribute to the gods.
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When we finally fill in the gaps in our knowledge the gods seem to just wither away and die.
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We all know what happened to Zeus since we discovered where thunderbolts really come from!
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"In life, you have to face that some days you'll be the pigeon and some days you'll be the statue."
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