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Originally Posted by FatGoth
What do it matter if divination brings into focus things you already know that the brain have filtered out, or if it brings in messages from the Spirits or whatever pepole might think the cause of the information received is? What matters is that one have a tool whit which to get information one would not otherwise get.
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Y-you mean like.. g-g-g-GHOSTS?
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Originally Posted by FatGoth
It is the same as when pepole say healing is bullshit, for what if it is placebo. Well I do not care if it is placebo as long as it works.
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Hmmm.. well, if everyone thought like this, it might account for all the dead people trying to communicate...
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Originally Posted by FatGoth
And how is it destructive? Have you seen how many pepole who find meaning with their lives, who get out of crisis, or even get the inspiration to turn their lives around because of religion. You may think that religion is not true, that the pepole who believe are wrong, but how the hell is it destructive?
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Seriously? How the hell is it destrutive?
How many kids will be beaten because their parents beleive that if their children go to Hell, so will they? How many children in Africa are being abused and murdered because evangelists christians have them convinced that their children have demons that have to be removed?
How many battered spouses refuse to or cannot seek help in heavily Muslim or Catholic coutries because of the stigma attatched to divorce? How many people will be murdered for their sexual orientation or for changin their gender? How many young women will be trained to be subserviant wives with no skills to undestand or communicate abuse, so that that they can churn out children like puppy mills?
How many people will get aids and other preventable diseases in developing countries because the missionaries who are supposed to be helping improve these people's lives teach abstinance only? For that matter, how many unwanted kids will be born this year in America because of abstiance only policies in some schools, and end up in destitute poverty? How many kids will die because their parents refuse to use methods other than "faith healing"?
How many young men will kill themselves in order to kill civilians in the name of Holey War?
But... I'm sure faith includes the infalibility of the comfortably prosperous devoting their lives to God justifying all of that shit.