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To: Dale Knipschield who wrote (52431)	9/18/2001 12:21:48 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

I don't know of any modern-day religion that does. PERVERSIONS of every religion have been used regularly to support all kinds of political and economic goals. Similarly, HATE of another forms no part of any modern-day religion that I know of, but is regularly grafted on to perverted-religion as a major motivator. A common theme of most religions is "oneness with the Divine", the Divine as "Creator/preserver/destroyer, God as the benign Father, God as the Divine Mother, and so on. That kind of base does not fit too well with "eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a tooth. Neither does it fit too well with: THOU SHALT NOT KILL, presumably a value most of us in the West give some credence to. I haven't looked recently, but I never remember any footnotes that say, (relative to THOU SHALT NOT KILL): Exception 1: Exception 322: etc. (New ones each week from our political & cultural leaders) Perverted religion is a great tool for power seekers of all stripes, races, nations. Namaste! Jim