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My point has been made:
"The simple fact is that people have a high propensity to believe what the community they were raised in believes."

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Agreed as long as we don't limit this to religion.


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IWLOE?

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I Will Let Others Elaborate. DUCY?


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What is your reasoning then?

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This is the only statement I was making: Mormonism and Scientology are closer to being a cult than mainstream Christianity is. Therefore, it would make sense that the more devout members probably have less of the doubts that DS was referring to, being the type of person more susceptible to cults in the first place.

My reasoning for placing these groups along the cult-religion line is based on my understanding of each group's beliefs. Pretty arbitrary though since it could be argued that Christianity was a cult too and only became a religion because of time and geography.


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It shouldn't say anything about the rationality or intelligence of those coming out of such communities as opposed to those coming out of communities practicing religions that are mainstream to the country as a whole.

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Maybe. The farther away from normal the beliefs become, the more chances there are for a reasonable person to say "wtf" and roll out. No way to bet on it now, but surely your average Koresh follower was way more irrational/unintelligent than your average American protestant.


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There was another thread in which someone was attacking Romney for being a Mormon. I confused the two. My bad.

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His being Mormon does not explicitly makes him a worse candidate. That being said, I think there are a fair number of questions he should be expected to answer about his faith if he is seeking the highest office in the world. I am sure this was all covered in other threads and I don't feel like making an already maddening forum even more maddening by making it political too.