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To: bentway who wrote (565736)	5/11/2010 7:55:44 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578550

There is certainly something that animates humans and animals that is not the flesh. It may be a "soul" or an electrical pattern, but a dead animal (including us) is certainly lacking something it had while it was living. To accept an entire religion based on this fact obvious to anyone seems unnecessary. Religion was invented to provide humans a prescription for living. It established a set of cultural norms, including what constituted healthy living. A prohibition against pork and eating fish on Fridays were examples of the latter. Sadly, modern religious fanatics and evangelicals are trying to apply those same scriptures written by the Ancients to modern day life. Some of it works but most of it doesn't. That means the rest of us have to spend an inordinate amount of time explaining what we are doing or fending off their attempts to control us, using ancient rituals as a guide. Its very frustrating.