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To: average joe who wrote (7387)6/11/2000 9:23:00 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
thanks aj ... here we go, who better to ask for a definition of religion than the catholics -g- - newadvent.org

"A far more likely derivation, one that suits the
idea of religion in its simple beginning, is that given by Lactantius, in his
"Divine Institutes", IV, xxviii. He derives religion from religare (to bind):
"We are tied to God and bound to Him [religati] by the bond of piety,
and it is from this, and not, as Cicero holds, from careful consideration
[relegendo], that religion has received its name."

Talk about 'ties that bind', did not stalinism have them in abundance -g-