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Old 04-29-2008, 06:04 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by xexon View Post
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Religion is a useful tool for shaping the mind. Little value otherwise.

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i agree,
and the shape the mind can take with religion could be that of caring or that of war, or a mixture of both perhaps.
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remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll
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