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To: Solon who wrote (18506)	7/17/2001 9:35:18 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I knew a woman briefly last year who spent about 30 years living in abuse--and endured losing her ability to love, to trust, and to believe--because of the INFLUENCE" of the Pope. The difference is that governments have power to abuse or kill you if you disagree. The Pope can only convince. You can argue against the wisdom of some of his ideas that he tries to convince people of using your example but it isn't directly relevant to my point. There is no need for a Religion to be a democracy. If you don't like it you can leave it or ignore it, or join a new one or start a new one. If you don't like any of them you can ignore them all. Governments aren't so easy to ignore. If I thought the US was so unjust that I had to leave and I renounce my citizenship then I would still fall under the power of some other government. I'm not advocating anarchy, governments are important, but they are powerful and dangerous in the way that religion is not to most modern people. Religion is only equivalently powerful and dangerous when it becomes the government or controls the government. Tim

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