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Old 11-26-2008, 12:33 PM   #40 (permalink)
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It is true.
Maybe you'd be willing to cite evidence?
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But who said anything about it being okay?
"Oh cry me a river" was fairly clear.
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We? For sure, I didn't screw them over. Neither did my father. Neither did my grandfather. And neither did my great grandfather. Now, maybe – maybe! – my great, great grandfather was somehow involved in screwing them over. But even if so, me and my offspring will not be held responsible, nor will we even feel guilty, for any misdeeds of my great, great grandfather and his generation.
We, the United States. There's no need to feign ignorance, it's dishonest.
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What, you think followers of Odin and Thor, or Ares and Dionysus, or Shiva and Kali, or Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli, et. all, never went to war and killed people in the name of their gods? Or do you think only the followers of Christ, Yahweh, or Allah have ever done that?
Nothing you just named is an example of pantheism. I think you're confusing pantheism with what's colloquially called paganism.
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Pantheism is a metaphysical and religious position. Broadly defined it is the view that (1) "God is everything and everything is God...
Pantheism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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