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Old 03-26-2010, 07:20 PM   #45
Hinigyday

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No difference. Those that buy into it are part of it.
Let me rephrase it then.

Most religions work on a premise that allow more harmoneous relation between people based on a comon unifying belief. Pack instinct, people have an instinct to follow each other.

So most religions have, at least on the surface, a sort of "help your neighbor" clause put into it. Provided, of course, your neighbor is "one of you" as well.

Some religions are more obvious of this exclusion, but some, like Christianity as it stands in the Catholic Church, are not. Do not even get me started on some of the denominations we harbor in the south (Baptist, I think?) and their inherent "we love all people, so long as they agree with us!....

Anyway, whatever. The statement I made was a generalization that can, with small effort, be picked apart on individual issues, but the premise stays the same. Religions teach solidarity. Very few say "kick your neighbor". At least, not as such.
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