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To: Dan3 who wrote (57782)	10/8/2001 8:52:09 PM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 275872

Dan re: - Now you can all be mad at me, and stop fighting with each other - that is fairly accurate summary, thanks. Regards -Albert ps paranoid is though rather strong

To: Dan3 who wrote (57782)	10/8/2001 9:19:01 PM
From: niceguy767	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan3: "Personally, I think anyone who believes in God is delusional, and a good candidate for sooner or later committing acts of extreme degenerate behavior (the Christian Nazis in WWII, Bin Laden and his Moslem crew more recently), but I try to live and let live, as long as the wackos don't hurt anybody." Your comment parallels OBL if one substitutes American for God...Generalizations, like OBL'S or like the above often reflect one's own bias or false belief system rather than anything dealing with reality...

To: Dan3 who wrote (57782)	10/8/2001 9:27:01 PM
From: Eric K.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: I think anyone who believes in God is delusional, and a good candidate for sooner or later committing acts of extreme degenerate behavior (the Christian Nazis in WWII, Bin Laden and his Moslem crew more recently), Human beings engaged in group-think are in general dangerous. I disagree with your assertion about religious ideologies being _more_ prone to degenerate behavior-- as Chariman Mao and Uncle Joe have well demonstrated, purely secular philosophies are just as hazardous to human health and progress as are religious ones. Though Hitler was raised a Catholic, it's a (long) stretch to argue that Nazism was in any way Christian-inspired-- accommodation was made with the church, but _Mein Kampf_, the German propaganda films of the period, and Hitler's speeches contain fewer than a dozen references to Christianity or God, most of which are done solely for anti-Semitic purposes. Better examples of Christian barbarism and extremism are the Crusades, the Inquisition, or the 30-Years War (aka the religious wars of 1618 to 1648). -Eric