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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by FabHK on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:25PM (#19973897)
Well, I think reading "holy" books is quite enough to see those flaws, and the media in many places are far too reverent to the regionally prevailing religion; but maybe that's a discussion for a different venue.

My point pertinent to this discussion was that community is important, and thus it's a problem if community is based on wrong or unethical ideas. It puts you in a terrible quandary (consider also Nazi Germany, the Sowjet Union under Stalin, etc.).

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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by leereeves on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:55PM (#19974211)
You can't fairly judge modern churches by the text of ancient books. Most churches have abandoned a literal interpretation of ancient holy books in favor of some variation of the idea that God's true message was distorted, embellished, or censored by the flawed humans who recorded it.
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