At 01:42 AM 4/6/2004 -0700 Richard Baker wrote: >Hasn't it been established by careful, rational debate on Brin-L that >all religion is Evil? > >Rich
At 03:59 AM 4/6/2004 -0700 Richard Baker wrote: >Most of the people that the Vatican will have killed in the end are >alive today, because the Vatican has impeded the progress of science to >a large degree (and, to be fair, so have the other branches of >Christianity). Let's make the conservative assumption that the Christian >authorities and the mindset they foster has delayed the advance of >science by a century (and it may well be more!). Then everyone who dies >in the century before science achieves human immortality (whether >biological or non-biological) has died as a result of Christianity. >Let's further suppose that the immortality breakthrough happens in 2100. >Then everyone who dies between now and then is dying solely because of >the past attitude of the Christian authorities: Christianity is >responsible for *billions* of deaths in the near future. (And you can >make a similar argument for everyone who dies of some disease in the >century or whatever before it's cured too.) Wasn't April Fool's a couple days ago? JDG - He can't *really* be serious, can he? _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
