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Recent content by Frank Merton

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    What political/economic system promotes religious freedom?

    Well of course. How glib!
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    What political/economic system promotes religious freedom?

    That is an interesting topic -- why it is that power corrupts. I think for the most part to achieve power one must already be corrupt, although there are exceptions (philosophical leaders, inheritance). Even those who inherit power however usually were raised in a corrupt environment. The...
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    What political/economic system promotes religious freedom?

    Marx is utterly obsolete (in fact he was by Lenin's time) and that you assert otherwise tells me that you have no real knowledge about the history of Communism.
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    How do you feel about other faiths?

    Religions are rarely forced on others. What happens is a population is forced to adopt the forms of the religion and then over a few generations it becomes the accepted religion. The key is to get control of the indoctrination of the children.
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    How do you feel about other faiths?

    Nonsense; I would say it was you who has not studied many religions nor their histories. They are and have been the single most important source of evil in history.
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    How do you feel about other faiths?

    If I have the opinion that I have the right to shoot and kill anyone I don't like, my opinion is wrong. Think a little before mouthing like that.
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    How do you feel about other faiths?

    I can't think of any religion that meets your standards.
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    What political/economic system promotes religious freedom?

    Books like the Bible and Marx are obsolete. It might be worthwhile to read a couple of summaries from different viewpoints, to get a historical perspective, but otherwise you are waisting your time. When I tackle this sort of thing I look for copies that are at a minimum fully annotated, but...
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    What political/economic system promotes religious freedom?

    Just think for a minute how one is supposed to respond to a situation where the other party has broken up what you say into little pieces. It becomes an incomprehensible mess, so I don't bother.
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    What political/economic system promotes religious freedom?

    That sounds like jargon.
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    How do you feel about other faiths?

    Of course opinions are often if not usually wrong, but they are better than beliefs because they are open to being changed when the evidence showing they are wrong becomes clear.
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    How do you feel about other faiths?

    Jeez! I said I don't have beliefs very clearly. Beliefs are things people are emotionally committed to, usually because of childhood indoctrination but effective propaganda (non-rational emotional appeals) also works.
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    I'm An Atheist Who Follows the Golden Rule

    What you say applies to all ancient philosophies and religions. We have myths as to where they came from but they are only myths -- interesting stories with maybe a kernel of history here and there but mostly invented over time. I think about the Buddha, who lived about 500 BCE, and has...
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    What political/economic system promotes religious freedom?

    I don't bother with responsese that break up my argument into small pieces and then respond to them out of context. I don't even read them.
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    How do you feel about other faiths?

    Because beliefs have no proof is why they should not be beliefs, but only opinions. Even opinions are wrong if they have no evidence, and asserting otherwise is what is intellectually dishonest.
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