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"I didn't want to ask questions because I knew that I wouldn't like the answers." I actually heard someone say this about religion. How? The timeline of human existence has been a progression of thought. Each philosophy has been built by the philosophies before it. If religion does not grow across time, then the only thing you're left with is an outdated set of belief systems. Why would you weigh women and measure their noses to determine if they were witches in a twenty-first century society? Growth only comes when the old is thrown out and the new is welcomed. Without suffering, without pain, there is no growth. The Christians confess it, yet they do not hold themselves accountable to their own principle.