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JUST A THOUGHT ON - IF I WERE A MAN, OR, INDEED, WOMAN OF THE CLOTH, HOW WOULD I BE ABLE ...? PART.3

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  .. to live with myself, if I were to find, or admit that have misled 'the flock'?     It cannot be that they take the simplistic and rather unenlightened approach or position of not questioning, not interrogating their religion, and are therefore oblivious to the contradictions and the 'this makes no sense aspects' of them.  It cannot be that they all take the 'it is all true, it is just that people misunderstand and misinterpret it approach.'  The 'there is no contradiction, it is all divinely inspired approach.' That, again, I believe, I think, is only a small part of this dilemma.  The bigger part of the answer, I think, is that of the people of the faith, the clergy, not wanting to give up on something which has been around for many hundreds, if not a few thousand years.  It is about numbers and longevity; the belief that, with 'our religions' having been around, survived for all these thousands if years, then we have a duty to protect and