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Man circumcises boy with hunting knife after reading bible
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And the evil continues ...
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Somehow I suggest that this might have as much to do with some sort of mental illness on the father's part than anything else. Just a hunch.
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Same thing. Christianity is not a disease (in an allegorical sense, perhaps), even if it causes diseases and diseased people are likely to follow it. Going to hospital doesn't mean you're dieing, even if people go to hospital for that very reason and others, while there, catch things which cause them to die.
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Religion is a sympton of the disease of faith, and religion is the cause of some other mential disorders.
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09-06-2004, 04:32 PM | #9 |
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[QUOTE=WCH]Belief is not a mental illness. Mental illness can lead to belief, and belief can contribute to mental illness, but the two are not synonymous.
Well at least according to you. I suggest that if belief in invisible all-powerful deities were not so prevalent then indeed such phenomena would be classified as mental illness, as I believe them to be. For your consideration and pondering |
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makes one wonder why would God create men with a foreskin in the first place and then tell them to cut it off?
big G is a bit of a S&M freak,eh? :devil3: |
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