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I know the history of the Bible and I understand basic Christian dogma. I do not, however, claim any knowledge of the various sects and sub-cults of Christianity. I don't, for instance, pretend to understand the belief differences between, say, the Methodists and the Southern Baptists, or the Seventh Day Adventists and the Jehovah's Witnesses. I certainly, only superficially understand the differences between RC and Eastern Orthodox catholocism, just as I only superficially understand the differences between "High" and "Low" protestantism. I do know about Mormonism because I read their idiotic book. But as I see it, none of this is particularly important as all of these cults are based on the same crumbling foundation - that there is, or ever was, a god.

One fact that perennially fascinates me and continually seems to sail over the head of every "true believer" that I've ever met, is the idea that all of these Christian cults and sub-cults have different ideas of what consbreastutes the notion of God-pleasing righteousness. The Bible is such a vague work consisting of circles of illogic contained in circles of non-reasoning rhetoric that one can find just about anything one wants to find there. Each cult (Donald's notwithstanding) says that they have correctly deciphered God's true meaning and that only they have the true path to salvation. The one constant in any false belief is the inability of that belief's followers to cover all the bases with their back story. Reality has a way of taking care of those details, a false 'reality' has to have all of those details specifically supplied by the authors of story itself, since the human (or superhuman) characters in that story did not actually exist and thus cannot supply the details with the facts of their actual lives. This leads to gaping holes in the story itself. Nowhere is this phenomenon more aptly illustrated than in the Holy Bible which leaves each religious faction to plug those holes with their own set of beliefs. IOW, if one studies the Bible dispbuttionately, one will see clearly that the Bible actually debunks itself.

No, he's right. I don't know much about Eastern (sometimes called Greek) Orthodoxy. But it doesn't really matter. The details and minutia buttociated with the Orthodox Church become moot when one doesn't accept the basic premise. From that perspective, ALL Christian (and indeed Jewish and Muslim) cults proceed from the same false premise. The differences beyond that are, to me, anyway, largely irrelevant.

And, if I might be so presumptuous, knowing Orthodox Catholicism or Presbyterianism or Holy-Rollerism is not going to alter the fact that you do not buy the underlying premise of all these cults: that there IS or ever was a God.

-- George Graves The health of our society is a direct result of the men and women we choose to admire.