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March 5, 2009 - 1:54pm
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Unionist wrote:

Before you flatter me any further, know thou what I believe:

Religion (organized, or not) is bad. It's divisive, and deceptive. It separates people into believers and non-believers. And it seeks and provides phoney explanations for real phenomena. Perhaps worst of all, it offers hope as a substitute for action.

The more we know, the less we need to believe.

 

 

I agree that most religion has been used this way most of the time. But there is another kind of religion and hope can be also inspire and sustain action. 

Consider this from Hugo Chavez:  

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In those days when I, as an altar boy, used to walk in the humble church of Sabaneta, at the beginning of the stormy decade of the sixties of the last century, my spirit was first conquered by the blazing and whipping words of Jesus, Christ the Redeemer of the oppressed peoples.

The Sermon on the Mount and its promise of justice for the poor of the earth have excited me ever since.

 


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