Originally posted by lumberjim
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this leaves no room for the preists to control you, though. If they aren't in a position of authority to translate the "wordofGod" to us minions, and your persoal faith is all you need, what the hell do you have to go to church for?
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True. Something I struggle with nowadays. I was raised Catholic but have since decided that maybe I need to do things my own way. I really struggle with what to do with my kids. I don't want to raise them in the same dogmaSphere I was raised in but do want to raise them Christianlike.
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and does god speak english now? word of god! give me a fucking break. try "word of some relatively smarter guy that had a good vocabulary and a clear vision of how he thought people should see religion."
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If God did not (however indirectly) write or inspire the Bible, then that pretty much wraps it up for the existance of any religion - organized or otherwise. Since the Bible pretty much defines the relationship between people and God, to proclaim the Bible a forgery is to eliminate God altogether or, at least, to render the relationship non-existant.