Here's what I had to say on the "Brainwashed" thread:
http://www.mashada.com/dcforum/DCForumID15/109.shtml
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The relationship between a person and their God is private, personal, direct, and unconditional. You don't need to belong to any religion, have gone through some "cleansing" ceremonies, have some biblical sounding name etc.
Any middle-men who come in between somebody and his God be they preachers, priests, bishops, popes, saints, Virgin Marys, Angel Gabriels, Jesus Christ etc are just out to manipulate and mislead people for some gain.
The most misleading verse in the entire Bible has got to be: "I am the way, the truth, and the light. No one comes to the Father except through me." This supposedly uttered by the one and only Jesus Christ.
People had been talking to God centuries before this Jewish Christ came along. People continue to talk to their God without the "assistance" of this same Jesus.
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