Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Questions like "is there a god or not" or "was Mary a virgin" etc. were invented just to distract people from the real one - "why should one pay money to the church, and obey church rules". But it seems like it doesn't work any more - at least in Europe people were able to stop caring about the church without changing their beliefs much. Power of churches fell much more than number of believers.
Well, if Europeans manage to believe in God without giving power to the Church, then why is it that you're the one bringing churches' power into this, when the rest of us were simply talking about belief in God? Indeed, as I'm about to demonstrate in another post, it's /your/ position that depends heavily on the technical point of whether or not some God manages to actually exist. NPOV, of course, cannot judge.
-- Toby