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Is organized religion bad?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rosco..Jones" data-source="post: 84752" data-attributes="member: 2729"><p>There are many organized religions in the world. Within each there are an untold number of variations on the main theme. It only follows that each individual has their own variety of understandings and beliefs. My issue with organized religion is that they all attempt to put into words, concepts that do not transfer easily and cannot be expressed either verbally or in writing. </p><p></p><p>In addition religious teachings were written by persons whose own beliefs colored their interpretation of what was to be communicated. In Christianity for example, what teachings were to be included in the "official" version of the Bible and which were to be excluded was decided by a group of men. The men who made these decisions often had more that altruistic reasons for making the decisions they did. As times passed mistranslations and alterations further distorted the original concepts of the teachings.</p><p></p><p>But, whenever persons of <em>similar</em> beliefs get together, it does not take long for agreement and disagreement to force the adoption of some official version of what beliefs are accepted or not. At this point the group becomes organized. I do not see how this can be avoided.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rosco..Jones, post: 84752, member: 2729"] There are many organized religions in the world. Within each there are an untold number of variations on the main theme. It only follows that each individual has their own variety of understandings and beliefs. My issue with organized religion is that they all attempt to put into words, concepts that do not transfer easily and cannot be expressed either verbally or in writing. In addition religious teachings were written by persons whose own beliefs colored their interpretation of what was to be communicated. In Christianity for example, what teachings were to be included in the "official" version of the Bible and which were to be excluded was decided by a group of men. The men who made these decisions often had more that altruistic reasons for making the decisions they did. As times passed mistranslations and alterations further distorted the original concepts of the teachings. But, whenever persons of [I]similar[/I] beliefs get together, it does not take long for agreement and disagreement to force the adoption of some official version of what beliefs are accepted or not. At this point the group becomes organized. I do not see how this can be avoided. [/QUOTE]
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