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My point is that Christians have had a persecution complex going on for so long that they occasionally experience mass paranoid delusions.
I’m not trying to imply that every Christian is in need of therapy.
I am saying that just because large majorities of people believe something doesn’t in any way help prove its true.
I don’t even believe it’s a Christian thing particularly; it’s a majority thing.
Christianity gives the majority the moral authority to come to wrong conclusions, just as Paganism gave the Roman Emperors and Senate the moral authority to mismanage the peoples of their time.
Christianity was the New Age philosophy at one time.

2007-07-11 08:24:30 · 4 answers · asked by ♥Gnostic♥ 4 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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It was the McMartin case: they had a whole fantasy of a Satanic cult that was molesting children, people in robes, candlelit rooms, and they had children "recalling" this stuff under "guided hypnosis"
Lives were ruined, businesses were bankrupted and the DA pulled the case due to ZERO evidence(the rooms the kids "saw" didn't exist). Never happened, ever: just a fantasy that had been implanted in the imaginations of some poor little kids.

It was exactly like the Salem witch trials where they would submerge accused witches to see if they would float, in which case they were witches(?!).More unjustified death and ruination.

"the devil" is an invention of the early church designed to discredit the local pagan beliefs. Satan is a rather debonair figure in the Bible; he's a literary foil to both God and Jesus. The trouble starts in the last book added: Revelations.

2007-07-11 09:15:59 · answer #1 · answered by Divadarya: trans n' proud 3 · 4 1

I remember that case. It was the case that gave rise to the theory that false memories can be instilled in anyone under the right kinds of isolation and psychological pressures.

2007-07-11 08:33:05 · answer #2 · answered by correrafan 7 · 2 0

Wasn't Christians who were doing the persecuting then...it was social services...

2007-07-11 08:27:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

im not sure waht the point of this was

2007-07-11 08:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by takingoverme248 3 · 0 0

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