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Sun Mar-27-05 05:34 AM
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168. Many of the points the "snarky subgroup" -- to use your snarky --

Edited on Sun Mar-27-05 05:35 AM by Old Crusoe

-- characterization -- raised in these threads are to the point and have clinical or historical backing.

The University of California -- no fly-by-night operation -- has done studies on mental illness and the religious personality. Write to those researchers and call them "snarky."

The messianic impulse, not unique to Christianity, is nevertheless a "belief," that is, trans-human. "Magical," if you will, as in Christ the Magician, as in hocus pocus. Many variations on a theme of: "I don't see the thing in front of me." Or, "How did they do that?"

As for snarkiness, LL, the defenders of the faith on DU can dish it out with the best of them.

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