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- My problem, then, lies with validity. If you accept the 'underlying message' of Christianity, but do not accept the Christian God, you are not really accepting Christianity at all. In fact, you are expressly choosing to ignore what most believe to be exactly the point of Christianity.
- As such, I should reword my previous tolerance statement, since it seems to be the one causing the most grief. Rather than 'tolerance', perhaps we should instead say 'agreement', or something to that effect. In other words, religions are 'in general' (aha!) mutually exclusive. Even your 'tolerant' religions would not agree that Christianity is accurate - not the way that Christians believe it to be accurate.
- These pagan faiths fall to the same problem. While they might be tolerant of other religions, they downgrade and adulterate them into 'things people believe.' This is insulting, quite frankly, to someone who is convinced that their God is the One True God. The view that religion is simply a piece of the puzzle, something to 'serve a purpose', like a rake or a hammer, is a view that would have many zealots screaming for blood.
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