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From: jimw@netcom.com (Jim Whitaker)
Subject: Re: Is Religion Necessarily Political?  (whas:The function of religion
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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 06:07:44 GMT
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Bernd Kassler (mintaka@alnilam.toppoint.de) wrote:
: Hi Scot Paulsen
: (spaulsen@uceng.uc.edu)
: on 02 Dec 94 you wrote in alt.atheism
: on behalf of topic : Re: Is Religion Necessarily Political?  (whas:The function of religion

: 2. Religion is always political when more than 2 people are involved.
: otherwise you could sit in your privacy and do what you want...but this is  
: not the intesion of religion..

An extremely complicated set of beleifs with non-logical content
comperable to the leaps made by christianity is not a religion
when it has only one beleiver.  The world considers this person
to be certifiable.

If the group has 20 people, they would be considered a psycho
cult, and there would be some very intense politicking going on.

If the group has 2000 people, it is a cult with centralized leaders.

If the group has 200,000 people, it is a still a cult.  If 25% or more
of these people are gold card carriers, the group becomes a religion.

If the group has more than 2,000,000 people, you have a religion.

: 3. Is there any religion without gurus/priests/(people who *know*),  
: without organization, without power, without destruction, without  
: suppression of "heretics",...please name one.

Atheism.  Agnosticism.  Many branches of Buddhism.

: and that's political

: tat twam asi
: TSCHUESS.......................................und wech......
: mintaka@toppoint.de............(Bernd Kassler, Kiel, Germany)
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