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Evangelical Indoctrination of Children

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Coragyps
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09-11-2009 12:42 PM 		Reply to: Message 11 by kbertsche
09-11-2009 11:27 AM

Re: Asking the question a different way...
At some point, we must allow our likes, dislikes, and aesthetic notions to be overruled by truth and reality, both in science and in theology.
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But you appear to be a rational sort of person, kbertsche. Hundreds of my neighbors here in the Bible Belt are going to allow no such overruling, religiously or politically.
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Coragyps
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09-23-2009 9:35 AM 		Reply to: Message 167 by Michamus
09-23-2009 9:03 AM

It's a pretty powerful tactic - dare I say strategy? - that gets to the deepest emotions of us humans, that is, our desire to be with our loved ones.
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My dad was a seminary-trained minister/missionary and a tremendously compassionate man, and he once told me that there is no place in the Bible where we are told we'll be "reunited with our loved ones." It sure does get preached a lot, though.
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