>Dragan
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>>>It surely has importance to those who have been brought up (or should I say "were brainwashed") to believe it has.<<
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>You know what I see? I see people claiming to argue from a position of intellectual honesty, who nevertheless load their every point with unsupported scoffing.

Whereas the declaration of non-religious people as "less human" is heavily supported and is not scoffing?

>If you are a result of your experience, then you too are a result of "brainwashing".

My total experience is not just brainwashing, it's also influenced by the fact I've recognized it as such and fought against it. And not just religious - there was the petite-bourgeois, the patriarchal-provincial, the consumer society, the totalitarian tendencies in politics, the propaganda war (from within and from outside the country)... I had a large choice.

>Presumably your "brainwashing" was superior, though, which is why you are allowed to scoff at others.

Scoff was not my intention at all - remember, my next sentence was "This belief surely doesn't help those who suffer from the physical state you mention: they surely feel worse if they're led to believe their lives are worthless without it." My standing here is that burdening people who already have trouble with their lives with extra burden of having to have some major external purpose to their lives is no way to help these people. But it helps the church exercise their power over them.

Besides, my brainwashing was inferior - coming from several incongruent sources trying to apply same tricks - which helped see through it.