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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (2536)	10/25/2000 1:50:26 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I understand that religion, like any other form of mass belief or mass conformity, has its troubling aspects. But I don't suppose you'd condemn democracy, or perhaps socialism, not sure, no offense, I just don't know what you think, simply because it's a form of mass belief. I don't pretend to know everything about every religion. I have read the New Testament, and I am aware how very little in it is supposed to be what Christ actually said. Of those few words, I have not found any that were not just, and morally defensible. He was an incredibly kind man, far kinder than anyone else I can think of except maybe St. Francis of Asisi or Mother Teresa or someone like that, and I am aware that Christopher Hitchens has nasty things to say about Mother Teresa, so who knows? If we all lived according to His precepts, the world would be a far better place. I believe, with all my heart, that He would have been the first to condemn genocide and the first to try to help the victims. He healed the sick, comforted the afflicted, clothed the naked, fed the hungry. He didn't wish ill on anyone.