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Originally Posted by IAM.
As we are born as pure life , as innocence we dont have any judgements, opinions, we all play together without looking at religion, colour, etc.

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Originally Posted by [B

Vizio[/b];28079363]Before we can go any further.....we need to settle this point. What are you basing this statement on?

Answer: simple, and unbiased direct observation of specifically non-Christian, and any other socially isolated communities. Like those previously "lost" but well-adapted tribes in the deep Amazonian jungles, who have only just now been tainted by the socio-cultural contamination of mandatory & unquestioning thinking. Or in the sad cases of our once well-adjusted North American native brethren, both on the high plains and in the Arctic.

Example of pre-Christian "pagan and savage!" housing in the Iroquois communities:

http://www.greatdreams.com/native/iriquois.jpg

I witnessed this spiritual swindling firsthand, even as recently as the late '70s and early /80s, in the Canadian Arctic, where the Catholic and other rigorous missionaries first plied the perfectly happy and in balance with their natural world Inuit, but then after they'd "bought" the native's trust with beads, trinkets, blankets and ridiculously cheap and shoddy pre-fab houses, they then threatened them with all sorts of spiritual and even physical maladies if the natives did not immediately abide and go along, without any questions, towards a Greater Christian Theology!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/donbrr/2347384058/

If the reader is interested, this interesting opening quote from this article may stimulate your curiosity:

"In 1890 there probably was not a single Christian Inupiaq (sing.) Eskimo. Twenty years later, there was scarcely an Inupiaq who was not a Christian. The source of this transformation would appear self-evident to anyone aware of the following facts: 1) in 1887 the Mission Covenant of Sweden opened a station at Unalakleet, on Norton Sound; and 2) in 1890 missions were established by Congregationalists at Wales, Episcopalians at Point Hope, and Presbyterians at Barrow."

The Inupiat and the christianization of Arctic Alaska

The church also abducted the Inuit children and forced them to learn English (and even some Latin! Can you imagine the utility of Latin to an Inuit! Yup: thought so!), and to NEVER use or show any interest in the fast-fading Inupiat culture, language or arts. Thankfully, the Inuit have now wholeheartedly rejected this hollow fascist approach and have, largely, ousted the church from their culture.

The Inuit have since then almost universally rejected that pervasive and obviously wrong-headed and tragic cultural pathology; that droll, treasonous and evil presentation, on how to live a good and Christian life.

Btw, the Inuit and their very successful predecessors from across the original Bering Land Bridge (they who successfully whaled very large mammals with handmade but lethal weapons, made ocean-going kayaks and survived in one of the most hostile cultures in the world) all predate Christianity by quite a bit! OMG, huh? How DID they manage this without your God one wonders (well, not really...)

Explain please, All-Knowing Vizio.