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Subject: Re: Is religion bad for you?
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 22:39:26 EST
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> Jay Ramanathan

>      ....Religions have separated people for so long.  How come, even
> with all this progress that man has made in many other areas (and thereby
> becoming enlightened, presumably) has he not been able to reconcile
> on this one point?  Wars are fought, people kill each other, all due to
> this man-made difference (I repeat, man-made).  People swear by one holy
> book or the other, often times reducing the act to a mere ritual.
> 
> MAYBE IT'S TIME WE ALL LOOKED CAREFULLY AT WHAT THIS WHOLE BUSINESS IS
> ABOUT, RAISING OURSELVES ABOVE THE ARTIFICIAL (another word for "man-made")
> BARRIERS OF RELIGION.

People fight wars because of political beliefs, as a defensive
strategy, for trade and economic reasons, or because they have
nothing better to do.  Disposing of religion will not change
this situation.  The major wars of this century were all politically
and economically motivated.  Religion played a minor part in these,
if it were a factor at all.

Why must religion be the whipping-boy for these problems?
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam