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Brigid

(17,621 posts) Mon Jan 16, 2012, 11:04 AM Jan 2012

"No lie can live forever."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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"No lie can live forever." (Original Post) Brigid Jan 2012 OP

Beautiful sentiment, but COLGATE4 Jan 2012 #1

How would anyone ever know? Bandit Jan 2012 #2

Pretty much every religion got "invented" (to put it kindly) at some point bhikkhu Jan 2012 #3

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

1. Beautiful sentiment, but

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 11:45 AM

Jan 2012

unrealistic. Ex: 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', first created by the Russian Czars to inflame the populace against local Jews, it resurrects itself in every generation, new and fresh as a daisy ethnic hate.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)

2. How would anyone ever know?

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 11:55 AM

Jan 2012

bhikkhu

(10,720 posts)

3. Pretty much every religion got "invented" (to put it kindly) at some point

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 12:24 PM

Jan 2012

...and there are plenty of them still around, believed enough to kill and die over.

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