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

To: Neocon who wrote (13558)	5/14/2001 1:19:25 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

And it just might be "providence" that allows for a religion such as Hinduism of almost 5000yrs old to remain vital and very much in existence as well , Neo. 25million gathered at the Ganges this year to bathe.... and not one bottle of Jack Daniels or six-pack of Buddweiser you would have found anywhere... Christendom seems to have been on a drunken rampage thru the centuries ,by comparison...alcohol being their favorite universal drug of choice. Let's see , India gave us Tea....and opium for the British to enslave the chinese... there was firewater for the Indians... and slavery for the Black....and tobacco for everyone. What Buddha taught was more Christian than much of Christianity, though you wish to talk only of submerging the will & the obliteration of individuality . Buddha talked of a "truer" self and that "other shore", one can reach . It is an expanding of self, and an increasing of awareness of what we are. The Life force discovered deep in the conciousness of a person freed from the burdens of guilt, neurosis and the weight of original sin , can be quite liberating.<g> It is Providence that we have everyone of these other great examples of man's exploration of his own personhood , mortality , and divinity and the world around him, and the example of every culture and civilization to that "progress " , you would take all the credit for. What I find shallow? That the catholic church has never been able to come up with a comprehensible doctrine for human sexuality after all these centuries, and still can't. BTW: PLease feel free to lay claim for all the progress in the world , Neo.