dogma and proselytism (was mostly off-topic )

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> > >Maybe dogma creates the tumour you are talking about. Can`t there

> > >religion free from dogma?

>

> i believe there can...i know there can. it's a relationship...it's

> all based on relationship.

> >

> > Well, dogma is pretty much definitionally required by religion, I

> > think. If there's no dogma, there's nothing to have faith in.

>

> i'm sure you didn't meant to say that we should be having faith in

> dogma...but i think that's just where the problem lies. dogma

> ultimately becomes THE THING and replaces God...this happened with

> the pharisees, and this is going on right now in many churches.

> that's why there's so many of them...they all have

different 'dogma'.

>

> i could talk more about this...but i won't right now.

>

> i base what i say more on experience than anything else, being a

> Christian for 30 years. i'm certainly not the arbitor or the

> expert...it's just what i've learned in 30 years. and the longer i

> live the more i believe it.

>

> laura

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Perhaps the " trouble " is not with all dogma, but particularly with

the dogma of proselytism.

José