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From: bjanz@watarts.UUCP (Bruce Janz)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <8471@watarts.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 15:33:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 15:33:17 1985
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Reply-To: bjanz@watarts.UUCP (Bruce Janz)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <12900002@faust.UUCP> jjm@faust.UUCP writes:
>
> Remember: There is power in numbers.
> "Organized religion" is a hiding place for people who are scared
> to learn about this universe.  People want to believe ther is an
> "after-life" that they can concieve of now!  Why do people sit 
> around and wonder what will happen to them when they die?  They
> are missing NOW!!  You cannot live thinking about tomorrow (ie.
> your death, if your reading this you arn't dead), or hiding in the
> past (ie. religion based on good ol' books that tell the story).
> If people put as much effort into their existance now as a citizan
> of this planet, this universe, then maybe there would be no 
> overpopulation, starvation, torture, war, etc., etc.,etc. -------
> But, you know, human nature won't allow it.  Huh?
>
   Actually, I thought that a lot of the humanitarian effort, especially
   in third world areas, was initiated by organized religion.  You may
   want to claim that their reasons for starting this action are
   inauthentic (ie. proselytization), but I think there are a fair
   number of religious organizations are concerned about their existence
   "now as a citizen".  However, shouldn't this discussion be in 
   net.religion?


                            -b. janz
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