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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
By putting yourself in the place of judge "They are ok with God while Those people are not..." you elevate yourself above others. Placing yourself in the place of God.
Not your place.
When you are perfect, then you can do it... until then, shut-up and work on your own shit.
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I am not sure to whom this was addressed. I have to change the 'yourself' to all' institutions of religions' in order to try and put in in the context of my post.
People define themselves by the contraints of thier religion. So when you use the personal 'yourself' as judge I get confused because I was talking about 'religion' as a whole. The original article I refered to did not exclude for purposes of not getting on tangents like this.
I guess I don't know what you are talking about.
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Originally Posted by skysidhe
Nothing, religions exclude all the time. It was an emphasis about the article itself.
The article included all people who from the original list who thought of themselves to be Christian otherwise it would be exclusion of which for the most part the opinion polls are not biased toward.
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But it is probably impossible to have any large group of adults reach a consensus on precisely who is a "Christian," and who is not.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_defn1.htm