re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....

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You can say the same for any religion. Mormonism, Islam, Buddhism etc. That doesn't give any of them any more credence as the absolute word of god.

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I'm well aware. Im not using the argument that because someone outside the faith comes to it later renders that particular faith true. Im arguing against the idea that the origination of an idea, whether by your parents or any other method, renders that idea false by nature of its origination and not the truth value of the idea itself.

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There is a common spiritual underpinning to all religions. The religions themselves are manmade subjective interpretations of various unknown men over time.

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Can I not say the same for your idea? The idea that there is such thing as a universal spirituality is a manmade idea, so it too must fall.

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Start objectively investigating the origins and evolution of the Christian religion and, with the information available today online, there is no way you cannot come away with serious questions about what you have been conditioned to believe by parents, society etc. It takes an open mind to look into it.

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It is never a good thing to assume that a person has not done these things when they hold a different viewpoint.

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Watch some Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and really listen to and read what they are saying.

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Hume, J. L. Mackie, and Bertrand Russell are far better.

I can understand Hitchens and maybe Harris, but Dawkins should never be used as a source of reference for this particular topic.