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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Einlanzer0" data-source="post: 6860238" data-attributes="member: 6788934">So, here, you basically admit that you took liberties in interpreting my original post due to your own biases and used that interpretation to derail the thread into a meandering cringe-fest of largely semantic rants motivated from your own personal religious convictions and the false perception that I in some way attacked them. I respect you as a fellow human being, but I am not one to coddle or enable this type of irrationality. You brought the discussion to this point, so I won't shy away from it now.As an aside, God and gravity are not the same thing. Gravity is empirically observable and testable; God is not. Your faith does absolutely nothing to change that.This, again, is a blatant strawman of my original post designed to further your own agenda. Being charismatic, and deriving power and influence from it, does not automatically mean you are a charlatan, or wicked, or anything else. Preachers and leaders of all kinds gain clout through the cathartic power of the messages they convey, which is usually proportional to the confidence with which they convey them, and this is what serves to attract large followings. This is how cults are born, and it's how religion (along with other types of philosophical ideas) spreads. It's really just about that simple, and no amount of defensive, high-minded chicanery really changes that.</blockquote>