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Old 12-17-2006, 06:43 PM   #19 (permalink)
fourthdan
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Originally Posted by Jeff Lilly View Post
Personally, I view a religion -- any religion -- as a practice, not a body of knowledge. This is the same as the difference between the scientific method and a particular scientific theory. And I'd rather use a practice that has been tried and refined for millenia than something someone dreamed up a couple of hundred years ago.
I disagree. some Religions (particularily eastern ones) have a huge body of knowledge associated with it. hinduism has 80,000 scriptures that talks about everything from conduct in society to the age of the universe.
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