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To: bentway who wrote (505641)	12/8/2003 8:04:09 AM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 769670

You wrote:<font color=blue>" ... and we seem to refuse to take any kind of responsible stewardship over the planet on which we arose."<font color=black> Organized religion allows it's followers to be selfish, self-centered pigs. By pushing the false concept that man is made in God's image, it allows for man to deify man and not God. The unborn fetus is given an almost god-like importance, while the miracles of this world, like the whale, the elephant, the porpoise, and our air and our water, are being destroyed because God is going to fix things for us. There are some very sick people out there that believe that garbage. You wrote:<font color=blue>"We've know for a long while now the Earth isn't the center of the universe, but seem to cling to the notion that we are the chosen animals on it simply because we can exterminate the rest."<font color=black> It doesn't stop at the extermination of lower forms of animal life. The history of mankind shows that the majority culture almost always persecutes the minority culture. One example is the Muslim slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians from 1914 to 1918. The Muslims slaughtered 75% of the Armenians of the world. Why did they do it? Because the Muslims were in the majority, just like they are today, and because they could. One sign of a civilized culture is not abusing majority power and allowing the weaker minorities to exist in peace, whether that minority is another religion or race, or a lesser animal species, such as the whale.