Ok, I'll acknowledge that it seems that way to you. Try to understand that you are wrong.
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Quoterrmoderatorcsfield: Let's be honest. You are not here to much other than flame and argue. No. Sorry for expressing a different viewpoint from yours. If you want to debate me on the benefits of religion, we can set up a formal debate. Just a heads up, you will get owned.
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rrmoderator: Huffing paint is extremely dangerous and cannot seriously be compared to harmless and beneficial things like cigarettes and alcohol. csfield: Those things can be pretty bad too, especially if you drive or operate heavy machinery after drinking. rrmoderator: What is your purpose on these boards? These forums are about dangerous things like inhaling solvents. That is known to
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I understand your position, Rick. But try to understand that I are not trying to blur the distinctions between cults and mainstream religions to excuse the harmful cults you fight against. I consider the mainstream religions harmful. The differences are in degree. Saying a mainstream religion is not a cult is the same as saying Landmark is not a cult. Fine, no charismatic leader, they still use b
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One creepy thing they do in the ILP is something called "mirror work". You practice looking excited in the mirror until you can sustain it for minutes at a time.
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OK, it's popular so it's not "unorthodox". But it's still harmful and absurd, with an infallible leader and doctrines and dogmas that are arbitrarily invented. My point is that mainstream religions aren't much better than fringe ones. If you want to use orthodoxy to distinguish a "cult" from a "religion", then any of the cults described in these f
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Patriotism isn't necessarily a great thing either. Bertrand Russell (an atheist) defined patriotism as the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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The Catholic Church is a cult too.
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Our best theory of gravity (general relativity) is known to be incomplete, but no educated person suggests that gravity is not a fact. The same is true of evolution.
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