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To: Father Terrence who wrote (77492)	4/10/2000 4:16:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Poppycock. Emotional lien? Following your logic I should tell you to prove it. Show me the emotional liens. You believe or you do not. What lien am I imposing on you? At least in this country no one can force another to cleave to any particular "mystical belief". The Constitution forbids it. I think you are afraid you might be wrong. We tend to mock those things we can not understand or which we fear in the manner you employ. JLA

To: Father Terrence who wrote (77492)	4/11/2000 10:06:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

the mystical beliefs of mankind as a whole do affect me personally as they are an emotional lien on every person who does not buy into the madness What are you talking about, Terry? Do Christmas trees give you nightmares? Do you feel some compulsion to fast during Ramadan? In what way does Yom Kippur affect you? It also costs money and time and has slowed the progress of our race every time it gains too much power. Once again, you blur personal faith with organized religion. Moreover, aside from the tax breaks for organized religions, the money and the time are freely given by the individuals who have the right to use the money that they have earned through their own labor and wits however they please. Giving it to a church-sponsored charity strikes me as more potentially utile than, say, giving it to a mall-shopping teenager. It was religion, after all, that pushed for slavery in Colonial America and made it stick for generations. Pfui. Think economics.