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Slavery: Christian Excuses

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01-04-2014 3:25 PM 		Reply to: Message 73 by Itinerant Lurker
01-04-2014 2:45 PM

Re: Genocide: Christian Excuses
Scary. These people are slaves to their beliefs, biases and ignorance it seems.
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This is little different from Taliban\Extreme fundamentalists ... and shows how easy it is to create terrorists.
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RAZD
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01-04-2014 10:51 PM 		Reply to: Message 76 by roxrkool
01-04-2014 9:33 PM

Re: Genocide: Christian Excuses
How do people let themselves get into these positions? Is it possible we are all susceptible under the right conditions (management, religious leader)? I want to think I'm not, but perhaps it's a natural human behavior or pre-disposition and I'm as susceptible as the next person.
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This seems to be another aspect of cognitive dissonance -- he knows it is unsafe but he justifies by being a blind follower, one is more important than the other ... see
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What Is Cognitive Dissonance? Definition and Examples
What Is Cognitive Dissonance? Definition and Examples
Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia
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It is certainly unnerving to find out how easily people can be manipulated.
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01-05-2014 9:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 80 by Itinerant Lurker
01-05-2014 8:42 PM

"christian" sites
Yeah, I've been banned from other sites as well. The funniest was that the admin went around and "refuted" my posts after banning me with ridiculous pratts.
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Whatever happened to "turn the other cheek" eh?
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