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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I wouldn't say that a belief in God is an indication of a lesser intelligence. I know some very intelligent Christians. I suppose i just wish they'd apply it to something a bit more useful, that's all.
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I agree completely, that is why I, like Paul, like to ask Christians the big questions, but as it was mentioned before, the rightist political movements are fleecing religion in order to subject the masses, much like the early Protestant movements of Europe, which cared not about the theological debates, but honestly about skirting the tithes and taxes of the land-owning Church. Protestant preachers and political leaders generally wanted to replace the political and legal authority of the Church in order to subject the masses to their own levies, and has our society full of murder, rape, and war benefited any from their attempts?
Christians need to up their game, but then again so do we all.