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To: IrishBrigade
...but the notion of free thinking is anathema to an ordered religion...

Can you give examples?

29 posted on 05/03/2018 4:43:04 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

“Can you give examples?”

Galileo springs to mind.

L


30 posted on 05/03/2018 4:52:51 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Elsie

‘Can you give examples?’

the entire purpose of any organized religious entity, complete with hierarchical chains of command and various levels of instruction for its communicants, is to develop a system of ‘thou shalt nots’, the commission of which would rise to heresies and apostasies...just look up listings of heresies within the early Christian church, and you’ll see numerous beliefs, and the freethinkers who propounded them, that have been repudiated and branded as heretics...all because in some way, shape, or form their ideas ran afoul of the powers that be...


32 posted on 05/04/2018 10:52:35 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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