Thank you for your thoughtful response, Red Beard. I know you said you weren't going to stick around but I implore you to do just that. I feel you would be most interesting to talk to.
Having read your reply, again and again your offer justifications for the unusual nature of the One True Faith. However, does it not strike you that the other religions of the world also share nearly identical patterns? They all start small and grow, over time, through writings, preachers, and other purely terrestrial and mortal conduits. They are, in practice and execution of their spreading, nearly identical.
What, then, convinces you of the Truth of yours, and the Untruth of competing religions? By what measure do you decide that your team has it right, and everyone else, whose various belief systems share all those same characteristics with yours, are not?
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