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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Death of various religions
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 13:13:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 13:13:32 1985
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> I think this is a worthwhile topic for discussion, if we can restrain
> ourselves from wishful thinking about whether or not the religions in
> question were (or are) true.
> 
> Charley Wingate

How about this scenario: Long ago people formed groups that believed in certain
things. The groups were sects of different religions. As time went by and
more and more became sceptical of the set of beliefs that they were introduced
to as children and gradually began dropping tenets, one by one, from the
cental set. Eventually if this procedure continues they will be left
believing in the quantities that religious beliefs were originally introduced
to promote in the first case i.e. social harmony, mutual respect, etc.

Of course there are two interesting  aspects to this:

1) The religions are really evolving and not dying

2) Some of the non-christians were there all along.

Padraig Houlahan.


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