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Originally Posted by powerclown
What I'm saying is that the experience of religion needn't be one of control.
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The thing is set up to control, though. Many Christians upon hearing that you only go to church on holidays and really only observe things like prayer before eating would say that you're going to hell for not being a real Christian. They are being controled.
Maybe I should clarify. Going back to the Matrix analogy, the devout are in the matrix, and the agnostics or those who really only do religon when it's convenient are like Sypher. You know the whole thing isn't right, but you go along anyway.
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Originally Posted by powerclown
In the same way that the experience of sex needn't be one of rape.
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Wouldn't that make anyone who brings a child to church a pedophile?
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My earliest experiences with faith were symbolic, not religious.
My earliest experiences with religion were those of love and being loved by family.
While we partook of religion only ceremoniously, our faith wasn't in religion.
Family was our religion.
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So I say again, religion is fundamentally linked with your family. May I ask if you believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross and was raised by god again, so that he would ascent into heaven? A yes or no answer would be fine.