Does the author, being born in the bible-belt, wants to target only Christianity or all the religions alike?
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Does the author, being born in the bible-belt, wants to target only Christianity or all the religions alike?
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You are completely right! but do you think some of the more specific comments about the manipulations and contradictions in the Catholic Church can also be applied in another religious context? Maybe in like extreme sects like the People's Temple, or the Moonies, for example?Juliet+1 wrote: ↑09 Dec 2020, 18:05 Since the author dedicates his book to "the billions of Christians who, throughout the centuries, have suffered overwhelming guilt, humiliation, torture and death at the hands of organized religion," I would think Christianity is indeed his main target. Any reader can, of course, generalize the ideas and comments in this book to other major religions. It's not difficult. But I thought that the author seemed much more concerned with developing a foundation for a belief in god that could be independent of any organized religion. He used the Roman Catholic Church as the example because that is the religious organization that he knows best.
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To me, the author was confusing traits that are common themes across humanity with the religions in and of themselves. I feel like most of humanity is wired toward religion, otherwise there would have been a purely atheist society long before this century. Thus, to a lot of people, it's easy to pinpoint the bad aspects of society on religion, when, in reality, its humanity itself which is geared toward destruction.
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