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[sophiaserpentia]

Crossposting to challenging_god.

Is it fair to judge a religion on the basis of actions done by its followers? By this I mean of course weighing the good deeds as well as the bad ones. Or should this judgment be made simply on the basis of the teachings themselves?

Underlying this question is another one: to what extent is a religion defined by the people that make it up?

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[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

To some extent I think it has to be; if there is a great discrepancy between what the religion teaches and what its followers practice, there is a problem somewhere.