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Originally Posted by dead_battery
you can play the game of "but thats not true religion" and of course there are higher aspects and more refined thinking.
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True, hence why I'm playing
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but for me, religion was being TOLD that there is a god and a devil who literally exist. you don't get to discuss when you are being told about this, you are interrogated with questions that ask you to regurgitate the lies you've just been told. if you cough or say the wrong thing, then expect to be subject to humiliation. if you say you're atheist be prepared to be bullied.
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Exactly, but as with your wise words posted about about being careful on the Bodhisattva path and about how the Texts are preserved while many of the current permutations of the "religion" are inherently corrupted, the religion you experienced was NOT what the Texts/Traditions originally taught or continue teach..
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you are told, very specifically, what the afterlife is. even though it doesnt make sense and is based on lies, you are told it is real. you are told that science proves the bible based on whatever fallacious concoction of bullshit the idiots 'teaching' you have heard from their church. you are not allowed to know about other religions. you can ask but you won't be told about them.
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Again, the question is WHO told you these very specifics? Its not in the Bible. Its not in the Canons. Its not in the Patristics. Its not in the Commentaries. Its not in the Prayer books or the Missals. Its ONLY in the superstitions popularly ascribed as being religion and yet which are not supported by an exegesis of the Texts, cultures, or canonized Tradition.
But like Lavar always said,
"You don't have to take my word for it."
