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magicjay38 said:
You can use any logical argument you want. I'm tired of hearing 'my God says so' in answer to the question about the value of religion as a social institution. There are so many ways you can counter my statements without turning to the Bible. Can you provide no logical response in defense of your institution? What I'm asking for is a dialecticle argument to support your views.



Christianity isn't simply a "because God said so" mentality. You're thinking of the Hellenic religions. Christianity has a set philosophy to it. Even if God doesn't exist, you'll have to prove how its scripture is "illogical" in its demands of Christian practitioners.



Okay, Pariah. My position is Marxist. Religion is an institution used by the oppressors of the proletariate as an instrument of social control. Institutional Christianity in particular is is complicite in this oppression. Jealous of the power of their superiors, the Imperial Roman Government, they created a priestly cast. Priests became useful to the empire by bending their slave followers to the interests of the empire. Just as it does today. The institution serves keep people resigned to a life of quiet desperation.

What does Scripture have to say to rebut that position?

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.