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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26115)	11/22/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Impristine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

dude, who gives a frig about darkness, i am friggin blind, and i can't see my shoes, i just fell and broke my leg, shit shit shit....

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26115)	11/22/1998 10:00:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Emile, what do you call loving? Taking away a man's culture His language His living His land? Changing beliefs Beating prayers into children Insisting that babies be born Who will starve and die Because of ideology And the power of numbers? There is plenty of darkness And death everywhere It litters the road leading to Christ And let us not forget that Jesus Was not a Christian. It was a strange violence Which grew up around the memory Of a charismatic country preacher Nothing to do with him at all Out of his control You could pass him on the road And he would love you While he roused the rabble Maybe he lives today on the streets of San Francisco, unrecognized Homeless, and maybe not. Maybe he is laughing with Siddhartha. But he did not burn anyone at the stake Or spread smallpox Or pocket the wealth Of the primitive world Or conquer countries and continents. Did you know that the Pope Is holding a tribunal In the year 2000 to find out What really happened at the Inquisition and try to heal The bad karma it left on the earth? Now that is a little bit Christ-like. You want to talk about confusion and Despair and terror Lazy hatred and dark disguise? Look no further. I do not know why But the road to Christ itself Leads often to darkness and death. How can you reassure all To follow you to Harpsville A place no one has ever even seen? Maybe there are just racks and Drawing and quartering devices For torture, like those millions Of women endured at hell on earth.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26115)	11/23/1998 6:55:00 AM
From: Hubert Few	Respond to of 108807

"if the road leads not to Christ, darkness and death will be their prize." That's wonderful that you believe that....for you. The problem is that not every person (or anywhere near) on the planet was raised under the same cultural influences that you were. If "Christians" could use the metaphorical examples in their beloved Christ's teachings as a guideline for the interaction with other groups of people, perhaps it might actually improve the overall experience of living on this overgrown, overpopulated, planet. Instead, the divisions that "Christians" create among themselves, and other religious groups just speeds up the inevitable process of the Christian rituals being dissolved bit by bit, and absorbed into a homogenized pool of humans creating their own NEW mythologies. Maybe a hundred years from now the commandments will be amended to read: 1) Thou shall not make thy neighbor's life intolerable by constantly haranguing them with your own particular belief system. 2) Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's Jeep. 3) Thou shall not practice unsafe sex or create more offspring than can be reasonably supported. 4) Thou shall not commit murder in the name of incomplete fetuses. 5) Thou shall not prostitute common sense on behalf of mentally ill "leaders" whose real goal is ego-gratification and unlimited opportunities for sexual intercourse with followers. 6) Thou shall not take thyself too seriously 7) Thou shall not gather in groups to criticize the belief systems of others. 8) Thou shall not claim to be in direct communication with God unless willing to offer tangible evidence of same. 9) Thou shall be willing at times to ponder the vastness of the Universe and expand your paradigm accordingly 10) Thou shall not place too much significance on any written words, but instead write your own.