Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:17:33AM -0500, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:30:30 -0800, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > > >Again, I need to proof read more... My point was that most of the US > >citizenry just plain don't care about the laws or the government. > > At least no

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:30:30 -0800, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Again, I need to proof read more... My point was that most of the US >citizenry just plain don't care about the laws or the government. At least not until those laws land on their head. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 06:58:02PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > > Not all US people are bigoted small-minded idiots who think everything > > Did I say All? Nope. Just most. My back up to this is the voting > booth statistics. BTW, I am a US citizen. I've lived here all my life. > In fact, the first

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 06:20:50PM -0800, x wrote: > >In actuality, we have this huge population of people who just don't give > >a rat's something we can't talk about on the radio. There are a lot of > >Christians, mostly of one Protestant denomination or another, and there > >are also a lot of

RE: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread x
>In actuality, we have this huge population of people who just don't give >a rat's something we can't talk about on the radio. There are a lot of >Christians, mostly of one Protestant denomination or another, and there >are also a lot of atheists too, but they all just don't care, they don't >vot

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 07:00:11PM +, Rik Hemsley wrote: > #if Mary Wood > God. I have this impression, rightly or wrongly, that the US > is full of Christians, and right-wing ones at that. Plus it looks > from here like they have a lot of power and that the US is getting > progressively l

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Mary Wood > If one is looking to learn a little more about a given religion from > an unbiased source (not always easy to find), a good start is > Religious Tolerance.org; [...] Cool :) I'm actually quite interested in religions, despite not liking them in general (I blame them for lots of th

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA...)

2000-02-24 Thread Jeramia Ory
> Shame Christianity seems to have forgotten about his teachings > and, in fact, misinterpreted him from day one. If I am recalling correctly, there was a group of followers soon after his death who preached his message was more important than his death/divinity. That's kind of where I am ri

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA...)

2000-02-24 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Mary Wood > - Mary; hoping she threw enough disclaimers and qualifiers > on this post to avoid total barbecue. Yes, well put :) I too love the idea of 'him' being a Good Man, and like the things he's reported to have said and done. He seems to have been one of the few truly 'pure'