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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
personally, i doubt it would have ANY impact. Seventh Day Adventists gave up all their possessions believing the world would end in 1844. Mormons believe absolutely moronic things like the "fact" that native american indians are actually descendants from hebrews, in spite of the fact that its an impossibility. Jehovas Witnesses believe that dinasours never existed in spite of the obvious modern evidence to the contrary. Scientology, founding by a well known scam artist and convicted felon, teaches that an alien creature 75,000,000 years ago, brought billions of other alien creatures to die here on earth adn their souls are in our bodies causing any and all negative thoughts, feelings and emotions we have. Sun Myung Moon, convicted felon built a mulit billion dollar empire owning companies that were major defense contractors to major players in the global seafood industry by telling people he was the returning messiah until he died... at which point his son then of course, became the returning messiah. the list goes on. most religions are based on absolute absurdities that were easily disproven at one point or another. it never has any negative impact on their following or strength.
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Yes but there's a fundamental danger here in comparing the ideologies of mainstream Christianity with some of the more obscure religious sects. If you add together all the followers of these religious sects and the overall credibility of their dogma's & ideologies in the general public's perception and compare it to those of mainstream Christianity then I'd say that Christianity outweights them by a huge margin and as a result of that huge disparity flaws that could be discovered in Christain dogma & ideology would have a larger and more far reaching effect to the public in general.