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Originally Posted by martyh

There is imo a clear difference between a religion and a cult .A religion influences society ,sets laws and moral boundaries ,cults are generally just an offshoot of a mainstream religion like Christianity

Thanks for attempting to answer this.

So if we let a cult start setting laws and influencing out life's, then it becomes a religion. I am sure you would rebound in horror if Scientology became more influential in politics and thus became more accepted as religion in the way of Christianity. That is my view on current religions. They should not have anything to do with the state, laws or my daily life. I am not religious so why should these things be allowed to dictate my life? They shouldn't.

But what you say boils down to what I said, a religion is a cult that has got accepted in to society enough to interfere with the politics of the world.

Yes we should have a moral code and some get it from religion. I understand that. What I don't understand is how intelligent people believe in any of the gods from any of the main religions. Yes there is strong evidence to show that Jesus existed was a real person that was written about but if anyone said they were the son of god today, no one would believe them. That is because we are more educated than those in the past.

So teach kids about religion as part of history, just not as a separate lesson. If parents want to teach their kids, let them do it. It would be good if religion wasn't forced upon kids but there is no way to police this.

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Originally Posted by Gary L

I'm the intelligent one

Fine line between genius and insanity