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When does it cross over the line from exercise of free religion into brainwashing? Who gets to be the judge and jury on this?
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Marx would have said that all religion is brainwashing. So be careful how much power you want to give to the government to control religion as the controling parties may think your views are a result of brainwashing.
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Religion itself involves "brainwashing" people of their natural tendancies onto some ideal. Why do some feel they have the right to take anothers ability to choose whose brainwashing is better than another?
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True, that's a question that should be asked of the state of Texas as well as those who choose to support their actions.
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If you are totally honest, you will see how the government and media actually try to brainwash people or create ideals that all must live up to. We know their actions are always correct-right?
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Wow, spoken like a fundamentalist Mormon! Well, at least like a supporter of Noam Chomski or Pat Buchanan. If you are interested in how this all works go to VideoGoogle and view "Century of the Self". Best documentary ever made in my opinion.
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Injustices have always been perpetrated in the name of religion. Take a look at the Old Testament. That was a brutal time of hostile takeover in the name of God. When the Isrealites were taking over cities I'm sure their actions weren't percieved by the people in the lands that the Isrealites were loving their neighbors. Or that they were protecting their freedom and free agency. Older men were with younger women. Women were treated as property. If one person died women were given to another. Polygamy did occur. As did many other things in the name of religion.
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Some of this was mandated by scripture while some was cultural. Your point being?