Don wrote:
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I guess what I am looking for is a positive answer. This website is negativly geared because it's the easy road. It's easy to take what someone else says and pick it apart. (People can do that even with Jesus' words). But it's very hard to actually stand up and say postive things, such as this is the ONLY way, or these are the ONLY true Churches
Don,
This website provides an attempt of uncovering the truth about some unethical organisations and the damage they do to peoples lives - you may regard that as being negatively geared but I regard any attempt of uncovering truth by exposing psychological and or physical abuse and offering solutions as being a positive initiative.
It is by no means an easy road to critic cults because the majority of those who do this have suffered personally or through loved ones at the hands of unethical groups. Conversely, one could say it is easy to avoid reality and only look at the positive.
Personally, I seek the truth and that journey exposes both negative and positive aspects of life. To narrow ones focus on either one or the other is to be only half informed which can underpin a bias.
For me or others on this board to say that this or that church is the only true church would turn the board from a media that attempts to provide an unbiased basis to having an alliance toward a particular philosophy/religion. [b:f37f0d35bf]Such a stand would not work with cult survivors who need to develop their own critical reasoning again, rather than be told what to believe.[/b:f37f0d35bf]
The only practical advice I can give on this board is to suggest you take a short course on religious history at an accredited university to start building a firm base of knowledge. You may also want to do some uni courses in Logic. With this accademic training, you will be able to discern which religion to join rather than to be told. - Now, is this positive advice :)
Oz