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From: afo@pucc-k (Flidais)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Once again on religius tolerance and the like
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Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 17:49:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 16 17:49:03 1984
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( hmmm, one minute, fifty seven seconds: we'll have to try again)

     Isn't it amazing how a group of people who have history (according
to them, anyway) of tolerance should be such a bunch of intolerant,
pushing,threatening bigots.  Obviously not of the order of the Arab
jihad on Persia (after all, we, unlike the zoroastrians, have not
been forced to flee to caves), but give them a chance, and I'm sure
they'll try it.  After all, they have "god" on their side, a
necessary ingredient for all massacres, jihads, and witch hunts.
     
     Especially amazing, is that although christians have moaned and
complained of being persecuted, the minute they get to a place or a
situation wherein they are not persecuted, they immediately attempt
to quash all opposition to their own way (our friends the
puritans).

     Powerless, spineless members of human society are always
attracted to the dominant religion of the day (check to see how many
people kept changing their system of beliefs during the protestant
reformation in Britain).  If there isn't a dominant religious power
on hand, a political power will do nicely (our friends the nazis).
After all, it's much easier to feel better about yourself if you
have a deity on your side.  You can be nasty and rude to people who
are better off than you, either intellectually or monetarily, and
get away with it if there is a strong religious (political) force
(read: bunch of bullies) behind you.  The nice person who tried to
'convert' you (or harass you, as the case may be) probably had his
neck stretched at Nuremburg in a past life.

-- 
Laurie Sefton
{harpo,ihnp4,allegra,decvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!afo
I am the sword, the spear, the arrow.  You are the flower, the tree,
the vine!  Never will I, or anyone force you to be other than what
you are -Never Again!