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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you believe in love?  Jesus teaches us that God is Love.[/quote]

Are you really that naïve about Christianity? If God is just Love, then explain all of the requirements for our behavior that God apparently has. The Christian God--for better or worse (mostly worse, IMO)--is MUCH more than just love.

The Christian God judges everyone's souls after they die to determine if they go to heaven, purgatory, or hell. Sound like love to you? [/quote]

That is dogma not god.[/quote]

Ok -- so if you separate dogma and God, then you really need to move away from pretty much all organized religions. You likely don't come to a notion that God is the creator of the Universe, the ten commandments, the Bible, etc. on your own.

So it's probably best to forget about Jesus altogether and go for what you can derive from personal reflection/meditation. Then I can buy the notion that you come to the conclusion that God is a stand-in word for what binds all of humanity -- love and compassion.

As soon as you bring Jesus or Moses or whomever into the equation, you immediately get into the world of dogma, which is filled with what makes religion a force of discrimination and violence. [/quote]

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