All religions are fake from the perspective of those seeing them from
outside.
No religion is fake from the perspective of its true believers.
Not a very useful metric, all things considered.
(Alignment with the majority perspective isn't much more useful,
either, unfortunately, as in the former case, the majority perspective
is itself somewhat skewed by its participation, in turn, in the
doctrine of the religion in question, if only indirectly. Come back
to Scientology in a millennium or two, and it will have its own
priestly hierarchy and its own diffusion into lay culture, almost
certainly ..)
On Dec 1, 2009, at 7:40 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
Remind me which one of these is supposed to be the evil phoney
religion?
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/12/irish_govt_report_on_catholic.php
http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2009/11/16-john-lindsteins-lawsuit.html
Evil is as Evil does Maru
"I don't believe there's a power in the 'verse can stop Kaylee from
bein' cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct-tape her mouth and dump
her in the hold for a month." -- Capt. Mal Reynolds, "Serenity"
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