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Re: What's your opinion? (any religion) - May 20th 2009, 03:32 AM
I see sin as the method religions use to control the masses. So-called sins are natural and lead to emotional and physical gratification. So religions demonize these natural, unavoidable feelings in order to create a need for religion. If you are sinning, you need a method of redemption, and that method naturally becomes the religion you follow.

That's not to say I think we should give in to all of our natural urges. But I don't think they are inheritently evil, as religions suggest.

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"Live a good life.
If there are gods and they are just,
then they will not care how devout you have been,
but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.
If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them.
If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life
that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
Marcus Aurelius