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Sooo....how's atheism different? [nt].....
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novanglus (Moderators; 6705)
Posted on: 04-08-2010 19:50.
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...and each fight leads to some new split in "the Church."
So, if you believe, like I do, that God intended to man to interface directly with Him, without a go between, then why do you need a church? And hence, you are freed from those dogmas and can practice as a person.
So, Christianity isn't dogma, its a collection of stories that help you find your way through trial and tribulation. And that has no bearing on whether the Anglican Church in the UK holds this, that or the other to be true.
Dogma is governance. Christianity is guidance.
There is a difference.
“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
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