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KellyC, at least regarding this topic, IMO your friend is pretty dumb. She sounds like a bit of a fundamentalist to me. I don't know of any religion that I would consider reasonable which believes the things that she is espousing.
While I don't believe it, going off the argument that all religion is created by man, religion is the name for ethical understandings which are intrinsic to our being. There is a reason almost every single religion is related in the most basic things they espouse, such as not taking innocent life. Perhaps you can make an argument attributing that they are all different ways of worshiping the same god, but if I'm right about your friend (with admittedly little to go on) I highly doubt that she would be willing to accept that idea that all religions have a degree of validity.
Aside for that, her argument falls apart at the first point. If religion was all there was telling us that taking innocent life is wrong (I use that term instead of kill because in the most commonly used example - "thou shalt not kill" - from the ten commandments of Judaism and Christianity, the original Hebrew did not use such a blanket word as kill but a more pointed word meaning something more along the lines of "kill unnecessarily") then what is there telling people like art and Hal that it is wrong to kill anyone they don't agree with? If her argument had any basis there would be an extremely large degree of people running around murdering and stealing all day long.
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