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To: Lisa who wrote (223)	9/21/1999 12:57:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (2) of 424

Not all Christians want to "control the world". Some of them are more interested in having people control their own lives. I believe that the actual reason that references to "reincarnation" or "former lifetimes" or whatever you want to call it were removed from the Bible was to implement a simple control mechanism. Someone figured out (and rightly so, I surmise) that if the references were not deleted, the General Unwashed Public would not have much reason to adhere to the church's moral codes and threats of "eternal damnation" for violation of same. It was probably considered to be an expedient way to shape the crowd up and mold them; part of a package that would get them in line and make them stop acting like barbarians. Not necessarily a bad thing in theory...kinda like Windows with IE, if you will. <g> It appears that the result of this censorship later on was that many Christians now believe that if you are not a Christian, you have "no soul" or some other sort of Major Spiritual Flaw. It appears to be simple leap of illogic, but it has rather significant theoretical consequences for Christians (or anyone else, for that matter) who commit capital crimes against other human beings and then come to find out that the people they "killed" didn't really die. I think every major world religion has moral codes. I know of several that do not believe in "reincarnation". I don't think that's the major factor. I think the major factor is the moral code itself, and specifically whether or not the moral code has a clause in it about Chopping Up the Bodies of the Unbelievers with Large Knives. That part always didn't make much sense to me, given the possibility that if reincarnation does exist, somebody you chopped up might remember it and become overly cranky at some later date and add the Chopping Clause to his rule book. Which then would kinda defeat the overall idea of the moral codes and make people act like barbarians because of their religion, which I humbly submit might not be the Main Goal. But hey, I'm from a different planet, so take all this with a grain of sporf.

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