-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 19:55, SB wrote: > Celejar wrote: >> I don't ignore it; I agree that religion has made ordinary people do >> extraordinarily cruel things; my point was that this isn't a problem >> exclusive to religion, but to compelling and convincing axiologies in >> general, and I reiterate, would we really be better off without them? I >> think it is unjust to imply that I'm 'reflexively' dismissing 'every' >> critique of religion as shallow and ignorant; I dismissed *one* as >> such, and for reasons I maintain are logical. >> >> And one more thing; while religion can "make ordinary people do >> extraordinarily cruel things", it can (and often does) also make >> ordinary people do extraordinarily lovely things. > > It's the claim of an exclusive franchise on truth by some (mainly Judaism, > Christianity and Islam) closely related religions that has compelled them > to justify all manner of cruelty, in the name of "god". It's this claim that > has caused and is causing all sorts of problems for the rest of us > Heathens/Kaffirs.
Or the fundamentalist Hindus who occasionally go on rampages, killing Muslims or burning people in effigy. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQTQQS9HxQb37XmcRAs2AAKCN4CVl3f9zc/+dSV6trBOnFmKYlwCfeVjR mtCEBX6c2kxZJYBd2BQKyzY= =cqr1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
