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help someone ! :) It seems I cannot write proper English anymore. I do not agree on the fact that myths are necessary because some people (the weaker) cannot live without them, that was what Karl Mark meant when he talked about religion being like opium (to alleviate suffering and that stuff) whereas the stronger can do without religion. To me that is not only rubbish but paves the way to fundamentalism.

Being a believer or not is not about choice, trust me ...

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill
by Agnes a Paris on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 10:18:07 AM EST
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You are perhaps conflating Marx' and Nietzsche's critiques of religion? For the former, it's a matter of predicament; for the latter, of character strength.

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by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 10:24:27 AM EST
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When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill
by Agnes a Paris on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 10:27:15 AM EST
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I've been incredibly careful not to say that.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 10:27:01 AM EST
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I don't mind, really.
What I mind is having the fundamentalist label applied to me.

Fundamentalist Catholics do not acknowledge Vatican 2, for which they theoretically should be excommunicated if the religious dogma was strictly applied, which is not something I favour.
There is nothing in the New Testament stating that divorced people cannot attend the communion, still this has been the case for a long time, not to mention the fact that people who committed suicide were considered doomed, which is nowhere to be found in the Scriptures.
These are dogmas produced by the Church as a secular institution.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill
by Agnes a Paris on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 10:36:37 AM EST
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Nobody applied that label to you.

I'm not sure that rejecting Vatican II qualifys you as fundamentalist, though there's a whole lot of batshit crazy stuff that the fundamentalist Catholics believe in. Including restoration of the European monarchies in some sections.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 10:38:39 AM EST
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Nobody applied that label to you.

here, here (I have lived in britain for too long....
by PeWi on Wed Feb 15th, 2006 at 10:44:28 AM EST
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