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To: milo_morai who wrote (119756)	7/9/2000 12:42:39 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575273

All, a site being discussed on the Yahoo threads... athlon.de fwiw steve

To: milo_morai who wrote (119756)	7/9/2000 3:47:06 AM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575273

OT: Milo, IMHO the problem with 'religion' and 'faith' is this: It's all well and good to say, "well, so it may not be rational, but look at the nice ethics they're teaching!" The problem is, there's almost always some element of, "we will interpret for you-- we'll tell you what is right and wrong." And therein lies the danger. Once you surrender rational thought, and pledge blind faith to follow a particular myth, you can be coerced into doing great evils by those in power within the particular cult. Religion is a scam-- one's model of the universe should always be changing as new data becomes available... at any rate, this is so OT, I'm going to stop right here. Doug

To: milo_morai who wrote (119756)	7/9/2000 8:19:08 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575273

Milo, OT as they say. It is not neccessary to either love or hate your fellow man. A respectfuly neutrality is what you need, live and let live is mt credo. I will help any person if I can and have the time to do so. In adversity I will make the time for racial altruism, yet I will not give money to street beggars as,at least in Toronto they are all drug addicts and drunks looking for $$ for their habits, how many people do the 'christian ' thing and give cash to drunks....thus hastening their demise). The problems with christians and other faiths is the often call their own faith the one true faith and those not of it not believers and from there it is a short step to hate them. All this is done by the clerics in their empire building frenzies. They have to expunge the other faiths because they believe their is the one true faith and thus logically all the others should be force converted or killed. Doubt me...read some history. Look how the assordid christian missionaries carved huge swaths through Africa 'saving' the natives. In effect they had the monumental hubris to feel that their breed of mumbo jumbo was better than the natives. It was no better and no worse, just came on the end of a gun barrel. We may laugh at some tribal customs, take them to a RC or HA service and look at the mumbo jumbo in full flower....but that is ours and we are the one true faith. Giveth me a break. For all we know the one true faith is yet to be found, it exists in a small tribe in the Patagonia hills that has not yet been found by the white men.(crazy white men, that is) You laugh?, yet there is no way to select any religion over any other. They are all crap and mumbo jumbo....methods of controlling and extorting money from people..trust me, take it on faith. Even now you can see radio and TV programs whose only message is send money and yield to my control. Same with all the other religions. Well enough OT for a while. Now you may see what the religions use so well in small towns to control and coerce people in action. Bill