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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1313)	1/16/2001 10:57:24 PM
From: hobo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

a government not a religion yes.. indeed. a church who stood by idle and in some instances helped the government by keeping the people ignorant. Same thing with the serbs... itr is NOT the Church... the buildings but what the PEOPLE profess BASED on the teachings of the religion. specifically i put that article to show that it is the people WHO believe in what the church professes. once again, the church/religion/ call it what you will have had sufficient time to either DO what they say they will do or correct wht they have done. the church has done none of that You say the "government did this not the church... well... the goverment is formed by people who uses the "teachings" of the church and heavy influence they carry to execute those acts... and the church ? mere observers ? i do not buy that excuse.

To: TimF who wrote (1313)	1/16/2001 11:05:02 PM
From: hobo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The link you provide is not a list of atrocities or human rights violations. It is a link to political propeganda and mentions of the bad conditions in the area. Following some of the links the only human rights abuses I could find where reports of rape by soldiers. The responsibility for the rapes would fall on the soldiers themselves and their commanders and the Mexican army if they allowed it to happen. it is not that simple.... i tried to show you what the situation has developed into... i guess i failed to make you understand. the situation has arraived to what it is BECAUSE the church and the heavy influence that to this day has over the people, ( ALL PEOPLE), has allowed this to happen. Why have they NOT changed this ? are these the results of their preachings in an area that has been so heavily influenced by the church ? that is a poor record. why has the church not obtain a better record ? i understand that not ALL priests are evil or selfish... but the bottom line result has been that the church has aided to the corruption and exploitation that has been executed in the entire Latin American Region.