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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 11:42 AM Original message |
Poll question: Does it matter if any of the legendary founding fathers of religion actually existed? |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. If the legendary founding fathers of religion did NOT exist, THEN........ |
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Agnomen (420 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 11:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Mythology is mythology |
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eallen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. Matters to what? The question doesn't make sense... |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. Buddhism is not a religion |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 11:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. But Buddhists have had, historically, a great many deities. |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
4. Other: It is the ideas not the people |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
7. It matters for most religions; for Christianity, it's vital, literally |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 01:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. It's certainly vital to Roman Catholicism. It's not necessarily vital to other forms. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. Massively so in some cases, not at all in others.. |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 01:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. That's a poll all its own. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 01:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. The answer for DUers would be very different for that from the populace at large, I think. |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
12. It depends on the philosophy espoused and the issue of authority |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
13. In the case of my religion NO |
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TRYPHO (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 06:38 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. hmmm...there's God and there's religion..or the practice of religion |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-04-07 07:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I understand... |
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TRYPHO (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-05-07 11:18 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Being a Jew is... |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-05-07 06:27 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Yep |
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