mostly off-topic (was Re: Setting the record straight...)

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--- In , Idol <Idol@c...>

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

> >religion free from dogma?

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

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

>

> > Anyway, you seem to have to choose - either

> >gap or tumour.

>

> Well, no, my analogy was meant to suggest that there's not

necessarily a

> gap without religion, but that religion might create space for

itself, as a

> tumor does.

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Isn`t talking about religion like trying to cross quicksand?

Well my personal feeling is that without religion there is a gap,

which is large or small according to the individual, but you can

always choose to ignore it.

JC